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Law is not justice and a trial is not a scientific inquiry into tr

Law is not justice and a trial is not a scientific inquiry into truth. A trial is the resolution of a dispute. – Edison Haines

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Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. – Thomas Szasz

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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place. – Lord Halifax

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