Reasonable Doubt Quotes

I believe despite my doubts, belief gives me power reason takes away

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You can deal with an emotion based on reason, but who can control an unreasonable emotion?

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Emotion is created by a cause, whether that cause is factual or imaginary does not matter, as longer as the believer holds it as true.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Knock on the heart’s emotions and its gates will be widely opened, but nock on reason and doubt will come charging at you

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

~ Voltaire

Well, did he do it?She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant did it or not. What mattered was the evidence against him -- the proof -- and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt.

~ Michael Connelly

As a society, we adhere to the belief in a fair trial for a person accused of a serious crime, but some of us struggle when it comes to the business of providing a competent lawyer to guarantee said fair trial. Lawyers like me live with the question “But how do you represent such scum?”I offer a quick “Someone has to” as I walk away.Do we really want fair trials? No, we do not. We want justice, and quickly. And justice is whatever we deem it to be on a case-by-case basis.It’s just as well that we don’t believe in fair trials because we damned sure don’t have them. The presumption of innocence is now the presumption of guilt. The burden of proof is a travesty because the proof is often lies. Guilt beyond a reasonable doubt means if he probably did it, then let’s get him off the streets.

~ John Grisham

Play with reason and doubt will close all the gates

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Reason is not always reasonable

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

But in the absence of eye-witness there's always a doubt, sometimes only the shadow of a doubt. The law says 'reasonable doubt', but I think a defendant's entitled to the shadow of doubt. There's always the possibility, no matter how improbable, that he's innocent.

~ Harper Lee