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Give me one juror who's not convicting me regardless of the evidence. It's a mistrial. Are they really going to try me again? all you need is one juror to say, 'Listen, I need more information. They didn't give me enough information to convict this guy. Therefore, the judge said, I must acquit.'. – Randy Zelin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
That’s his worst case, he has a lot of good opinions on… police needing a warrant (and opposing) laws drawn so broadly that prosecutors are convicting people who are not guilty… Clearly, he defers to the government on national security grounds, but most judges and justices do anyway. – Ilya Shapiro	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I think the idea of focusing significant resources on interdicting or convicting people for smoking marijuana is a waste of our resources, that's different than [ legalization ]. Our policy for our Administration is still not legalization, and that is [ and ] continues to be our policy. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 6 years ago
The private prison model is hinged on maximizing incarceration to generate profit -- they're incentivized by convicting, sentencing, and keeping people in prison for longer and longer times, we don't think about how the privileges and resources students get access to are premised upon violence done to people by virtue of their race, class, or citizenship status. – Dunni Oduyemi	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Police are torturing criminal suspects to get them to confess to crimes and courts are convicting people who confessed under torture. – Human Rights Watch	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I understand what this trial means for the community: an. opportunity for closure, a sense of justice, rather than convicting Tsarnaev and possibly sentencing him to death based on trial-by-media and raw emotion, we must put our emotions aside and proceed in a rational manner. – District Judge Juan Torruella	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

Give me one juror who's not convicting me regardless of the evidence. It's a mistrial. Are they really going to try me again? all you need is one juror to say, 'Listen, I need more information. They didn't give me enough information to convict this guy. Therefore, the judge said, I must acquit.'.

– Randy Zelin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That’s his worst case, he has a lot of good opinions on… police needing a warrant (and opposing) laws drawn so broadly that prosecutors are convicting people who are not guilty… Clearly, he defers to the government on national security grounds, but most judges and justices do anyway.

– Ilya Shapiro

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I think the idea of focusing significant resources on interdicting or convicting people for smoking marijuana is a waste of our resources, that's different than [ legalization ]. Our policy for our Administration is still not legalization, and that is [ and ] continues to be our policy.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The private prison model is hinged on maximizing incarceration to generate profit -- they're incentivized by convicting, sentencing, and keeping people in prison for longer and longer times, we don't think about how the privileges and resources students get access to are premised upon violence done to people by virtue of their race, class, or citizenship status.

– Dunni Oduyemi

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Police are torturing criminal suspects to get them to confess to crimes and courts are convicting people who confessed under torture.

– Human Rights Watch

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I understand what this trial means for the community: an. opportunity for closure, a sense of justice, rather than convicting Tsarnaev and possibly sentencing him to death based on trial-by-media and raw emotion, we must put our emotions aside and proceed in a rational manner.

– District Judge Juan Torruella

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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