Innocent Man Quotes
My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not.
Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.
Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.
My great crime wasn't refusing to represent an innocent man; my great crime was imagining that there was some path to racial justice that did not include those we view as 'guilty'.
Essentially the Succubus is a mythical figure - who used to come in and cause trouble with innocent men.
Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view.
Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.
While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.
Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.
Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.
Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.
I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?
A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.
I must admit, Peter, I have difficulty in understanding why an innocent man would want to spend twelve years as a rat.
An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.
I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.