Joseph Wambaugh Quotes

All decisions in the criminal justice system must be determined by the physical and scientific evidence, and the credible testimony corroborated by that evidence, not in response to public outcry.

Due process does not require that every conceivable step be taken, at whatever cost, to eliminate the possibility of convicting an innocent person. To conclude otherwise would all but paralyze our system for enforcement of the criminal law.

Courtroom dramas can be boring.

We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.

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.

I think the prosecution had all the evidence in front of them to have won the case.

I believe in my heart Simpson is guilty.

Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

The grand jury's job is not to weigh the evidence from both sides; it is only to decide whether there is enough evidence on one side to bring a person to trial.

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.

Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case.

Hopefully, America will really get a sense of how justice can be served in this country. And hopefully, they'll forget the Simpson trial.

'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'

If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.

I knew I was coming home, I thought they would consider acquittal, I was disappointed that they didn't.

A criminal should be exonerated if it is proven to the court that the blood of the victim was permitted.

The law itself is on trial in every case as well as the cause before it.

I know what it means to prosecute people.

I think trials are inherently dramatic and interesting and are always going to be part of the news.

After the verdict was read in the Simpson case, as the jury was leaving, one of them, I was later told, said, 'We think he probably did it. We just didn't think they proved it beyond a reasonable doubt.'

The issue of prohibiting pardons shouldn't be a political one, but a legal and moral one that relates to the details of the specific case before the court.

I truly believe in O.J.'s innocence, and unless they find him guilty, I will continue to support him.

O. J. Simpson has already received the ultimate punishment: For the rest of his life he has to associate with golfers.