{"quotes":[{"text":"I prefer my justice to be blind.","author":"Amy A. Bartol","tags":["blind","justice","justice-system"],"id":18388,"author_id":"Amy+A.+Bartol"},{"text":"I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves us of the cognitive dissonance of being black and innocent, and in a way the prospect of going to jail becomes a relief.","author":"Paul Beatty","tags":["african-americans","blacks","guilt","incarceration","innocence","jail","justice","justice-system","prison","race-relations"],"id":25037,"author_id":"Paul+Beatty"},{"text":"Miscarriages of justice review centre is a task that ought to be replicated everyother places globally because many people has been victims of miscarriages of justices and I must commend the sagacity towards the establishment of the review centre at The University of Sheffield and it's no doubt going to give a lot of people opportunity for Justice.","author":"Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba","tags":["justice-system","law","miscarriages-of-justice","university-of-sheffield"],"id":25283,"author_id":"Chidiebere+Prosper+Agbugba"},{"text":"It’s not our place to judge the guilt or innocence of the prisoners, Nurse Webster. The sooner you learn that the better. Any other approach just leads to conflicts of duty and undermines the smooth running of the institution. We are here to ensure that the prisoners are dealt with firmly and professionally. It’s up to their lawyers to handle matters pertaining to their sentences.","author":"Rachel Dax","tags":["human-rights","husbandry","justice-system","wellbeing"],"id":77854,"author_id":"Rachel+Dax"},{"text":"You know what my father said about innocent clients? ... He said the scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you fuck up and he goes to prison, it'll scar you for life ... He said there is no in-between with an innocent client. No negotiation, no plea bargain, no middle ground. There's only one verdict. You have to put an NG up on the scoreboard. There's no other verdict but not guilty.'Levin nodded thoughtfully.'The bottom line was my old man was a damn good lawyer and he didn't like having innocent clients,' I said. 'I'm not sure I do, either.","author":"Michael Connelly","tags":["attorneys","criminal-law","fear","guilt","innocence","justice","justice-system","responsibility","risk"],"id":85426,"author_id":"Michael+Connelly"},{"text":"The law is not an ass but a chameleon in ass skin: it turns deathly black when around blacks and pristine white when around whites.","author":"Agona Apell","tags":["black-lives-matter","blue-lives-matter","justice-system","law","laws","lawyers"],"id":85816,"author_id":"Agona+Apell"},{"text":"The law is logical and is based on common sense. The trick was to argue the law in favor of your particular point of view without sounding biased. It was kind of like a magic trick: the best illusionist being the one who can best manipulate the logic to his or her advantage, all the while giving the illusion of impartiality.","author":"Kenneth Eade","tags":["juries","justice","justice-system","law","trials"],"id":97691,"author_id":"Kenneth+Eade"},{"text":"The court system is the graveyard where Trump's fanciful delusions will be laid to rest.","author":"Chad Almadani","tags":["delusion","donald-trump","justice","justice-system","truth"],"id":112043,"author_id":"Chad+Almadani"},{"text":"It is a shame that the Legal Aid Commission and the Aboriginal Legal Service are so poorly funded ....... State and federal governments should be addressing this issueThe Daily Telegraph, Sydney, 30 March 2014.","author":"Abdullah Reslan Lawyer","tags":["aboriginal-legal-service","australia","community","courts","criminal-justice-system","criminal-law","government","government-spending","justice","justice-system","law","lawyers","legal","legal-aid","nsw","society"],"id":126217,"author_id":"Abdullah+Reslan+Lawyer"},{"text":"It was strange to see the keenness with which men had tried to order, constrain, and systematize human passions, jealousy, rage, violent death, accusations. That was the justice system (...): the absurd pretension that human nature could be dominated by the power of the law. Reducing it all to a summary of a few pages, organizing the facts, judging it, archiving it, and forgetting it. That simple. And yet in the silence of that place you could hear the murmur of the written words, of the key players, the screams of the victims, the hatred never forgotten by either party, the pain that never went away.","author":"Víctor del Árbol","tags":["human-life","justice-system","law","tragedy"],"id":128211,"author_id":"V%C3%ADctor+del+%C3%81rbol"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":37,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}