Fair Trial Quotes:

Anyone can be falsely accused of a crime. Everyone accused of a crime deserves a fair trial.

- John Garamendi

topic: Trials, Crime, Accused, Fair Trial, Falsely Accused

A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.

- Harry Browne

topic: Judging, Trials, Assumption, Fair Trial, Competent

There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.

- John Grisham

topic: Trials, Judgment, Fair Trial

I deserve a fair trial, like every other American citizen. A large amount of ugly, malicious misinformation has been released to the media about me.

- Michael Jackson

topic: Media, Citizens, Trials, Malicious, Fair Trial

Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

topic: Opportunity, Justice, Doubt, Due Process, Due Process Of Law

When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled. It has no apparatus to deal with the boor, the liar, the lout, and the antidemocrat in general.

- J. William Fulbright

source: J. William Fulbright's speech in the Senate on McCarthyism (February 2, 1954), as quoted in "Congressional Record", Volume 100 (p. 1105), 1954.

topic: Liars, Men, Abuse, Indulge, Innuendo

It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.

- Bill James

topic: People, Trials, Radio, Fair Trial

In many courts, plea bargaining serves the convenience of the judge and the lawyers, not the ends of justice, because the courts simply lack the time to give everyone a fair trial.

- Jimmy Carter

source: Carter, Jimmy (1979). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1978”, p.836, Best Books on

topic: Giving, Justice, Judging, Fair Trial

The function of the prosecutor under the federal Constitution is not to tack as many skins of victims as possible against the wall. His function is to vindicate the rights of the people as expressed in the laws and give those accused of crime a fair trial.

- William O. Douglas

topic: Wall, Rights, Law, Prosecutor, Fair Trial

A fair trial would have been no trial at all.

- Angela Davis

topic: Trials, Fair Trial

[T]he guilty as well as the innocent are entitled to due process of law. They are entitled to a fair trial. They are entitled to counsel. They are entitled to fair treatment from the police. The law enforcement officer has the same duty as the citizen-indeed, he has a higher duty-to abide by the letter and spirit of our Constitution and laws. You yourselves must be careful to obey the letter of the law. You yourselves must be intellectually honest in the enforcement of the law.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Law, Police, Letters, Due Process, Due Process Of Law

The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair trial. And that fair trial needs to have an impartial jury.

- Maria Cantwell

source: "The Anderson Cooper 360° Show", transcripts.cnn.com. December 7, 2009.

topic: Law, United States, Needs, Fair Trial

I think that all of us, as Americans, are due due process and have a right to a fair trial, and have a right to be considered innocent until proven guilty. I think that is the American way and it's the foundation upon which this country was built.

- Wesley Snipes

topic: Country, Thinking, Trials, Due Process, Fair Trial

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'

- Noam Chomsky

source: Noam Chomsky (2011). “9-11: Was There an Alternative?”, p.16, Seven Stories Press

topic: Stress, Law, Trials, Fair Trial

Boy, you'll have a fair trial. Race, creed or color, justice will be done in my courtroom.

- Laurence Stallings

topic: Boys, Equality, Race, Fair Trial

Too many are not willing to give the Gospel a fair trial. They are too ignorant to speak wisely but not wise enough to speak ignorantly. A man is not a sinner because he is a skeptic; he is a skeptic because he is a sinner.

- Vance Havner

topic: Wise, Men, Giving, Fair Trial

[Edward Snoden] has said many times that he's willing to come back and face trial if he can be guaranteed a fair trial, but the likelihood of that is so slim.

- Zachary Quinto

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Faces, Trials, Slim, Fair Trial

By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system!

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

source: "A Vindication of Natural Diet". Book by Percy Bysshe Shelley, archive.org. 1813.

topic: Race, Vegetarianism, Vegetables, Fair Trial

I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.

- Wesley Snipes

topic: Trials, Would Be, Theory, Fair Trial

The 'music' is not an open court and a fair trial.

- Edward Snowden

source: "V.A. Hospitals: Evidence of Abuse; Edward Snowden: Traitor or Patriot?; Search for Flight 370; Pacers Stave Off Elimination". "Early Start", www.cnn.com. May 29, 2014.

topic: Memorable, Trials, Court, Fair Trial

I think the issue is that Americans traveling abroad if gotten into legal problems should have access to a fair trial and an impartial tribunal.

- Maria Cantwell

topic: Thinking, Issues, Trials, Fair Trial, Tribunals

How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors.

- Daniel O'Connell

source: "The correspondence of Daniel O'Connell, Vol. II". Book by Daniel O'Connell, Irish Manuscripts Commission, Letter N. 700, 1972.

topic: Men, Law, Looks, Fair Trial

Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.

- John Galsworthy

source: John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.7654, Delphi Classics

topic: Mean, Trials, Wealth, Fair Trial

From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair trials before impartial tribunals in which every defendant stands equal before the law. This noble ideal cannot be realized if the poor man charged with crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him.

- Hugo Black

topic: Men, Law, Justice, Fair Trial, Accusers

In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system, non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush's order calls this Soviet-style abomination 'a full and fair trial.

- William Safire

topic: Order, Judging, Style, Jailer, Prosecutor

Over the course of more than 200 years, it has found a right to equal education regardless of race. It has guaranteed an attorney and a fair trial to all Americans, rich and poor alike. It has allowed women to keep private medical decisions private. And it has allowed Americans to speak, vote and worship without interference from their government.

- Herb Kohl

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Race, Government, Years, Fair Trial, Equal Education

You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.

- Florence Ellinwood Allen

topic: Judging, Office, Honor, Fair Trial, Shocking Things

...our state will not...secede. Have no doubt but Lincoln will make a good president - at least we ought to give him a fair trial.

- John Hunt Morgan

topic: War, Giving, Doubt, Fair Trial

He [Washington] has often declared to me that he considered our new constitution as an experiment on the practicability of republican government, and with what dose of liberty man could be trusted for his own good; that he was determined the experiment should have a fair trial, and would lose the last drop of his blood in support of it. And these declarations he repeated to me the oftener and the more pointedly.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.237

topic: Men, Blood, Should Have, Fair Trial, Republican Government