- Denounce
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- Nov 07, 2020
Criminal Law Quotes
Reflections on justice, defense, and legal limits
These quotes come from voices with firsthand ties to criminal law, including defense attorneys and law students. Related legal themes also appear in our age quotes collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had an affinity for criminal law because I came from that background. I understood it. A lot of lawyers of color understand the inequities of the system and become defense attorneys.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was interested in getting courtroom experience. When I was a young lawyer, the only way I could get real courtroom experience was in the criminal law field.
- Exchanges
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- Nov 07, 2020
Applying criminal law to the exchange of bitcoin on behalf of ransomware victims would create a morally shocking result of re-victimizing a victim. All lawfully operating digital currency exchanges would thereafter refuse to exchange bitcoin for ransomware victims for fear of criminal culpability.
- Chair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was married to a law student, and I used to attend classes with him at Georgetown University Law Center. Being of dramatic bent, I was drawn mainly to Criminal law and Evidence classes. A just-beginning writer, I would find an empty chair and listen, mesmerized, to the lectures.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020