Charles Barkley Quotes

People constantly complain to me about news coverage of criminal cases. 'What happened to the presumption of innocence?' they ask at almost every turn. Well, I'm tired of it.

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.

Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.

Every American deserves their day in court. Every American is innocent until proven guilty. These are core values enshrined in our founding document - the United States Constitution.

Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done.

Trial by television is ... foreign to our system.

By choice, polls validate the media’s filtered view of the world.

I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.

I don't have to prove my innocence to the court or to the news media.

Contrary to common belief, the presumption of innocence applies only inside a courtroom. It has no applicability elsewhere, although the media do not seem to be aware of this.

The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

We're looking at two different presidents here if all we have to go on is the media. When Donald Trump is in Washington, D.C., what is he? He is a genuine idiot. He's impolitic, he's uninformed, he's running a chaotic administration where nobody knows what anybody is doing. Whenever they do anything it is disastrous. But the Donald Trump of Washington doesn't exist, because the Donald Trump of Washington is what is reported in the Drive-By Media.

I also believe that when something negative comes out about you in the media, that's only one person's opinion. These guys sometimes believe they've been ordained from on high to give the general opinion of the populace, and that just isn't the case.

The great joy of being a prosecutor is that you don't take whatever case walks in the door. You evaluate the case; you make your best judgement. You only go forward if you believe that the defendant is guilty.

Contrary to what certain sections of the media have been reporting, there are no differences between Swami Agnivesh, Kiran Bedi and me.

It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.

In our justice system, everyone who is charged with a crime is presumed innocent unless proven guilty. It should go without saying that people who are not charged with a crime also are presumed innocent.

People are innocent until they are proven guilty, and we will make sure that stays the case.

Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.

The media paint ugly pictures about you.

The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.

Most of the things I read from journalists are, you know, a little bit simplified and easy.

It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?

A narrow and distorted picture of America often emerges from the televised news. A single dramatic piece of the mosaic becomes, in the minds of millions, the entire picture.

In Nigeria they convict by law, not by the truth