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David L. Bazelon Quotes:

David L. Bazelon quotes

Ocupation: Judge

Life: September 3, 1909 - February 19, 1993

Birthday: September 3

Death: February 19

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Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.

source: - David L. Bazelon (1988). “Questioning Authority: Justice and Criminal Law”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

Topics: Believe, Law, Society

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Nullification is not a 'defense' recognized by law, but rather a mechanism that permits a jury, as community conscience, to disregard the strict requirements of law where it finds that those requirements cannot justly be applied in a particular case.

Topics: Law, Community, Defense, Nullification

In some of our subcultures, paper bags are often used to carry intimate personal belongings. And the sight of some of our less fortunate citizens carrying their belongings in brown paper bags is too familiar to permit such crass biases to diminish protection of privacy.

Topics: Sight, Bags, Citizens, Crass, Paper Bags

The majority decision constitutionalizes a distinction between a red leather pouch and a paper bag that is necessarily based at least in some part on economic and class differences and perceptions.

Topics: Class, Differences, Decision, Paper Bags, Class Differences

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