Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. – Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg) Acton

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both. – Alice Stone Blackwell

Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trial as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible of application. – Warren Earl Burger