“It is not enough that we have a guilty defendant. We must have an innocent system as well.”
John Ashcroft (1942) American politician
Source: Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006), p. 107
“The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.”
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