Alan M. Dershowitz: Quotes about the truth

Alan M. Dershowitz is American lawyer, author. Explore interesting quotes on truth.
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“The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.”

Alan M. Dershowitz

U.S. News & World Report (August 9, 1982)

Truth

“That is why a criminal trial is not a search for truth. Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.”

Alan M. Dershowitz

[Alan, Dershowitz, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303544604576429783247016492.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop, Casey Anthony: The System Worked, The Wall Street Journal, July 7, 2011, July 7, 2011] published 2011-07-07

Truth , Search

“The courtroom oath—to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth—is applicable only to witnesses… because the American justice system is built on a foundation of not telling the whole entire truth.”

Alan M. Dershowitz

Alan Dershowitz, The Best Defense (New York: Vintage), 1983-5-12, p. xiv.

Truth , Justice

“All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.”

Alan M. Dershowitz

U.S. News & World Report (August 9, 1982)

Truth

“The judge also has a truth he wants to hide: He often hasn’t been completely candid in describing the facts or the law.”

Alan M. Dershowitz

U.S. News & World Report (August 9, 1982)

Truth , Law

“The prosecution is perfectly happy to have the truth of guilt come out but it, too, has a truth to hide: it wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.”

Alan M. Dershowitz

U.S. News & World Report (August 9, 1982)

Truth , Making love , Question , Happiness

“We hope that the end result is a just verdict that is also truthful, even though all sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.”

Alan M. Dershowitz

U.S. News & World Report (August 9, 1982)

Truth , Hope

“An important assumption underlying our commitment to freedom of expression is that truth is a process, not a product.”

Alan M. Dershowitz

Source: Shouting Fire: Civil liberties in a Turbulent Age (2002), p. 149

Truth , Freedom