Top 33 Best Criminal Defense Quotes
#1. I am a shark. A shark who dreamed he was a man.
Rick Yancey
#2. One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country.
Vincent Bugliosi
#3. Libertarianism holds that the only proper role of violence is to defend person and property against violence, that any use of violence that goes beyond such just defense is itself aggressive, unjust, and criminal
Murray N. Rothbard
#4. There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it,
Peter Zumthor
#5. There is no client as scary as an innocent man.
J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962.
Michael Connelly
#6. Lawyers claim that their clients have been grossly mistreated, which is what criminal defense lawyers are paid to do.
Ken Starr
#7. I'm an appellate criminal defense attorney. I'm used to losing.
Vanessa Place
#8. Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it.
Lawrence Taylor
#9. In other words, a gun is twenty-two times more likely to be used in a criminal assault, an accidental death or injury, a suicide attempt, or a homicide than it is for self-defense.67
Michael Shermer
#10. Providing adequate representation even for defendants who appear guilty is the best way to protect those who are not.
Deborah L. Rhode
#11. If I had a dollar for every time I couldn't sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.
Aesop Rock
#12. Don't tell me Kinshasa, the poorest city in the poorest country in the world, a place where the average per capita income is one goat bell, two bootleg Michael Jackson cassette tapes, and three sips of potable water per year, thinks we're too poor to associate with.
Paul Beatty
#13. Believe me, it is a great deal better to find cast-iron proof that you're innocent than to languish in a cell hoping that the police
who already think you're guilty
will find it for you.
Douglas Adams
#14. So swift, silent and furtive were his movements like those of a trained bloodhound picking out a scent, that I could not but think what a terrible criminal he would have made had he turned his energy and sagacity against the law instead of exerting them in its defense.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#15. I did criminal defense work part-time, and that paid the bills for representing abused and neglected children ... and for defending in juvenile court those kids the 'child protective system' had missed when it had the chance.
Andrew Vachss
#16. He couldn't keep his eyes off her face, wished she'd take off those damned sunglasses so he could see the eyes he'd known so well.
Ken Grimwood
#17. I come back to the science that is in it to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and climate change. It's about science, science, science and science, innovation, as we rebuild America, create jobs, invest in our people and turn this economy around.
Nancy Pelosi
#18. Criminal defense really isn't so different from proctology. In both fields, it's one asshole after another.
Emma Chase
#19. One of the most corrosive aspects of the criminal justice system is its toleration of the insanity defense...Legitimate in some few cases, the insanity defense has been rendered farcical through its manipulation by so-called experts.
Robert K. Tanenbaum
#20. It is perhaps true that the criminal who embraces a holy cause is more ready to risk his life and go to extremes in its defense than people who are awed by the sanctity of life and property.
Eric Hoffer
#21. Like my colleague, I represent a large Assyrian community in central California, one of the largest concentrations of Assyrian Americans anywhere in the United States.
Dennis Cardoza
#22. When you start thinking, you will lose your contact with the crowds!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#23. To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person - few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned.
Clarence Darrow
#24. Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.
John Yoo
#25. My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work.
Lynne Stewart
#26. In her ear, he whispered, "Do better than this Shazi. My queen is without limitations. Boundless in all that she does. Show them.
Renee Ahdieh
#27. The proper end of teaching is to lead our students toward autonomy.
Marshall Gregory
#29. They're all the same
the cop, the criminal, the defense, the prosecutor
they all share a fundamental belief in the malleability of truth
Louise Erdrich
#30. Our nation was built and civilized by men and women who used guns in self-defense and in pursuit of peace. One wonders indeed, if the rising crime rate, isn't due as much as anything to the criminal's instinctive knowledge that the average victim no longer has means of self-protection.
Ronald Reagan
#31. After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.
Chuck Palahniuk
#32. I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it's time to quit. It should be a constant source of discomfort, because you're dealing with incredible moral ambiguity, and you've been cast into a role which is not enviable.
Alan Dershowitz
#33. Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.
Richard Dreyfuss
