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- Nov 07, 2020
Convict Quotes
Guilt, evidence, and due process.
These convict quotes stay close to due process — one raises concerns about NSA data used quietly to convict people, another criticizes prosecutors who overcharge to force plea deals, and a third insists on innocent-until-proven-guilty.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Criminal Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it is better to let a guilty person go free than to convict someone without evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prosecutors frequently overcharge, load up charges on individual defendants, knowing that three strikes laws and harsh mandatory minimum sentences will force people to plea bargain and essentially convict themselves because they're terrified of doing a life sentence for a relatively minor crime.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
The proven method for saving the lives of innocent Americans is not disarming them. The proven method for saving the lives of innocent Americans is to arrest, prosecute, convict and jail criminal offenders, especially armed career criminals illegally using guns. This is the way to reduce gun violence.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The name 'Seventh-day Adventist' carries the true features of our faith in front and will convict the inquiring mind. Like an arrow from the Lord's quiver, it will wound the transgressors of God's law, and will lead to repentance toward God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir?
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
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- Nov 07, 2020