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A shocked sense of justice has to be removed and justice restored.
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
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The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. I
My life
has appeared unclothed in court,
detail by detail,
death-bone witness by death-bone witness,
and I was shamed at the verdict ...
justice. At least he will serve some time and live with the guilt forever." "That's
A criminal was already lost
by lost anger and frustration.
Petra Hermans
Babaji
September 25, 2016
Amen
Vindication is the privilege of the victorious
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.
It frequently happens that a villainous action does not torment us the instant we commit it, but on recollection, and sometimes even after a number of years have elapsed, for the remembrance of crimes is not to be extinguished.
A fantastic thing is happening in our world. Today a man is no longer punished only for the crimes he has in fact committed. Now he may be compelled to confess to crimes that have been conjured up by his judges, who use his confession for political purposes.
Convictions are not merely beliefs we hold; they are those beliefs that hold us in their grip.
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
Guilty until proven innocent
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I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.
of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
Justice is like a great home cooked meal; it may not come at the ideal time, but when it does it is served and delicious.
There are offences given and offences not given but taken.
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
Justice is putting everything in its proper place
Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.
Convictions ... are always getting in the way of opportunities.
How many crimes have been committed for no other reason than that the perpetrator could not bear being in the wrong!
Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.
Emotional truths woven by lawyers in the court of law are apparently more important than the truths of actual events. I have grown to fear for those whose innocence became trapped within the legal system.
Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.
The breath Of accusation kills an innocent name, And leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, Which is a mask without it.
Justice is rendering each killer that which is his due.
A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became general, cure most of the ills from which the world suffers.
Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it is better to let a guilty person go free than to convict someone without evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.
Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
[Lat., Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato;
Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hic diadema.]
Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.
Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.
Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean you're guilty of something.
When confidence is there, conviction is easy.
Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The lines for liberation and rehabilitation should first begin with the people who get into bad situations.
Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.
The most resonant crimes are the ones in which the victim is most innocent, or perceived as innocent. Blaming the victim is tempting; it offers an out.
Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.
Guilt requires absolution
Our greatest challenge today ... is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and by doubt I mean openness to the ongoing changeability, mystery, and fallibility of the conviction.
...But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.'
'What is that?'
' Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail.
A guilty conscience has nowhere to hide
When innocence trembles, it condemns the judge.
There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired
with a love of justice against offenders.
Today, criminal justice functions and justifies itself only by this perpetual reference to something other than itself, by this unceasing reinscription in non-juridical systems.
We had to fill in forms which asked us whether we had ever been convicted of any crime. I hesitated about this. The NCO in charge, seeing me hesitate, explained kindly:'You write "No" in that line'.
The gladsome light of jurisprudence.
absolute silence of the courtroom,
Belief is knowing what you believe. Conviction is knowing why you believe it.
The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty.
Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
If I claim full justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing - a thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales.
Writing is a conviction before it is a craft.
An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.
The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender.
Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of imponderables makes it impossible to sentence by formula and still sentence justly.
To seek truth and to utter what one believes to be true can never be a crime. No one must be forced to accept a conviction. Conviction is free.
Anybody who understands the justice system knows innocent people are convicted every day.
There are so many unpunished crimes in the world; indeed, they cover an area so vast, so ancient, so broad and wide that, up to a point, what do we care if a millimetre more is added to it?
Crimes spring from fixed ideas.
The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.
I hate it when people are wrongly convicted.
Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.
achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body
An unjust punishment is never forgotten.
Once you have tasted conviction, you can't bear to keep swallowing complacency.
Justice is having and doing what is one's own.
There are two public prosecutors, and one of them is at your door, punishing crimes against society; the other is nature herself. She is familiar with all those vices that escape the law.
To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of a little mind; but it requires a soul of no common stamp to be satisfied with its own acquittal, and to despise the condemnation of the world.
Most of the time, perhaps 99 percent of the time, the defendant is guilty; his screams are the final protest of a human being about to lost his most precious possession, his freedom.
Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.
He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.
To show men that crimes can be pardoned, and that punishment is not their inevitable consequence, encourages the illusion of impunity and induces the belief that, since there are pardons, those sentences which are not pardoned are violent acts of force rather than the products of justice.
Commission for Justice and Peace
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil.
Impunity: it's always impunity that gets you dancing. What did I care about
being ridiculous? I was on my way to earning a superior kind of impunity, and
nobody knew it.
I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?
Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most sacred rights; crime, like virtue, has its degrees, and never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.
The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.
Justice is the sanction of established injustice.
Who killed Chivalry? They need to get their sentencing Meanwhile we arguing and I can't get a sentence in
It came to that" the first time you sentenced a man to death that you knew to be innocent.
Offenses that are held on to lead to death.
Retribution. Poetic justice. Just deserts. Comeuppance.
This is a boy's lot: anything he does, anything whatever, may afterward turn out to have been a crime - he never knows. And punishment and clemency are alike inexplicable.
It is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Justice. I've heard that word. I tried it out. I wrote it down. I wrote it down several times and always it looked like a damn cold lie to me. There is no justice.
Some people are consumed with thoughts and memories from their past. Their mourning, regretting, rehashing, and begrudging doom them to life imprisonment in their painful past.
Many a criminal has finally given himself over to the authorities because the accusations of a guilty conscience were worse than prison bars.
Perpetrators who receive the gift of forgiveness are given a chance to change
The premise is prejudicial and proves that what's wanted here isn't a trial but a conviction.
You can almost define a convict as one who lacks precisely the kind of wisdom and self-control necessary to derive long-term advantage from short-term discomfort.
Pardon is granted to necessity.
An eye for an eye.Eye-- Belle Aurora
victim's rights to keep the criminal locked up.