I've never been accused of a felony. I never spent time behind bars except for a few overnight jail times back in the Sixties. [But] I think there's a little bit of a criminal in all of us. Everybody's done something they don't want anybody to know about.
The war on drugs is identical to the prohibition of alcohol: all you're doing is making criminals rich and powerful.
It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.
I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago.
The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.
The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism.
Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.
We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.
. . . an incorrect theory, even if it cannot be inhibited by any contradiction that would refute it, is none the less incorrect, just as a criminal policy is none the less criminal even if it cannot be inhibited by any court that would curb it.
Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.
Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
The Indian criminal justice system was a market like garbage, Abdul now understood. Innocence and guilt could be bought and sold like a kilo of polyurethane bags.
I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.
Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the virtuous voices that accused the criminals. And Art (ah, what luck!) offered alternatives, for those who were not prisoners to the mass media.
Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
. . . Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences.
The one thing prostitution is not is a 'victimless crime. ' It attracts a wide species of preying criminals and generates a long line of victims, beginning with the most obvious and least understood - the prostitute herself.
This country maintains that there is no political prisoners, that everybody is criminals, but it's just not true.