Quotes about Guilt Beyond A Reasonable Doubt

Voltaire

It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

This quotation has become an operational principle of most justice systems of industrial democracies.

Asha Rangappa

After all, clemency is by nature outside the rule of law. When conferred upon those already convicted of crimes, it unravels the decision of citizen-jurors who found guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

O. J. Simpson

I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.

Henry Wade

I would say that without any doubt he's the killer - the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty which I - there's no question that he was the killer of President Kennedy.

Clarence Cleveland Dill

Mr. Doheny, Mr. Sinclair, and Mr. Fall will have the best attorneys their millions can employ. The United States Government needs the biggest and best prosecutors that can be had to meet those attorneys in the courtroom and carry the criminal prosecution to conviction

Orlando Bandinelli

It is better to pardon the guilty than to take the lives of the innocent

Unfortunately, his close successors did not share Alexander’s surprisingly modern view.

Jennifer Dyset

About 30 percent of the time, witnesses in real cases, who pick someone and say yes, that is the person who committed the crime, are wrong.

There are other researchers who have corroborated the same research that shows that eye witnesses are very frequently wrong about not only people but other details. In some, a group of people all view the same episode of a crime In progress and they have very different perceptions of what happened and who did it. Any case that depends on an eye witness can really never establish guild beyond a reasonable doubt. Yet courts generally will not allow any of this evidence to be presented before a jury in a criminal trial.

Nancy Grace

I would have liked to personally have prosecuted Scott Peterson.

Janet Reno

I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.

Guilt Beyond A Reasonable Doubt Quotes