Criminal Law Quotes

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.
Louis D. Brandeis

Government, End, May

While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
Samuel Dash

Money, Experience, Teacher

My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.
David Guterson

Father, Law, Criminal

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.
John Yoo

Law, Torture, Criminal

The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live.
William Graham Sumner

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