Criminal Responsibility Quotes

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.

Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.

The blame for election interference belongs to the criminals who committed election interference. We need to work together to hold the perpetrators accountable, and keep moving forward to preserve our values, protect against future interference, and defend America.

No person shall be restrained of his liberty but by regular process from a court of justice, authorized by a general law... On complaint of an unlawful imprisonment, to any judge whatsoever, he shall have the prisoner immediately brought before him, and shall discharge him if his imprisonment be unlawful. The officer in whose custody the prisoner is shall obey the order of the judge, and both judge and officer shall be responsible civilly and criminally for a failure of duty herein

I wouldn't have voted to prosecute 13-year-olds as adults.

It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.

I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.

If Fascism has become a criminal association, then I am its leader.

While I oppose the death penalty as a policy matter, in a legal culture in which we reserve the right to execute people for relatively routine street crimes, it seems quite absurd for the justice system to get squeamish about executing the operational masterminds of Sept. 11.

Whoever is the first to cry "Stop the thief" is the one who is guilty.

People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

it is not the deed but the intention that makes the crime.

You can put a murderer in a suit, and hes still a murderer.

A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment.

The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.

I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime, but I prefer not to take tea with him.

MR. KHARIS: 'Does Mr. Celine seriously suggest that the United States Government is in need of a guardian?' MR. CELINE: 'I am merely offering a way out for your client. Any private individual with a record of such incessant murder and robbery would be glad to cop an insanity plea. Do you insist that your client was in full possession of its reason at Wounded Knee? At Hiroshima? At Dresden?' JUSTICE IMMHOTEP: 'You become facetious, Mr. Celine.' MR. CELINE: 'I have never been more serious.

I take responsibility for the times I was arrested and the things that I did. Me being 33 now, I look back on those times and I wish that a lot of things I didn't do. I wish I could have back because I see how much I influence people. People wanna follow in my footsteps and I wish that I can now do more positive things, and that back then I'd done more positive things.

Should those whose actions lead to the death or injury of a child get a free pass?

A man was the cause of it all. An unarmed man with a weapon.

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

[These crimes] had a principle author who escaped all prosecution and of whom in any case the present Defendants could only be considered accomplices.

I do believe that Jodi Arias shows a lot of signs of mental illness.

As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame.