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When the knife lands you in prison, you're a criminal; when the pen leads you there, you're a fighter. – Sir. Barron Qasem II	added by Aeqasem 2 months ago
The hostile climate many states are creating for the health care field by enacting criminal and other penalties for abortion care is an outcome whose reverberations we are only just beginning to see. – Kelly Baden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
He used politics to his own advantage to further not only his political career but also his criminal estate and criminal activities. – Vikram Singh	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It was created for the express purpose of being able to alter votes and secure the reelection of Hugo Chavez and then Maduro. They’ve used it in Argentina, there is an American citizen who has exported it to other countries and it is one huge, huge criminal conspiracy that should be investigated by military intelligence for its national security implications. – Sidney Powell	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I definitely don’t think we need a death penalty. However, if Florida is going to have a death penalty … then it should be reliable and accurate, as reliable and accurate as a human criminal justice system can be, this return to non-unanimity is just devastating in terms of reliability. – Maria DeLiberato	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Death and destruction are central to their criminal operation, to dominate the federal supply chain, the Chapitos kill, kidnap and torture anyone who gets in the way. – Anne Milgram	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Josh McLemore wasn’t a criminal, he was mentally ill and in crisis. He was out of touch with reality and needed help. This is glaringly obvious to anyone who watches the videos of him in his isolation cell. – Hank Balson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
While it may be too late for the survivors to see criminal justice served, we hope that exposing the Archdiocese’s transgressions to the fullest extent possible will bring some measure of accountability and perhaps encourage others to come forward. – Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I believe President Trump’s character and conduct make him unfit for office. Even so, I believe the New York prosecutor has stretched to reach felony criminal charges in order to fit a political agenda. – Another Trump critic	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This pro-criminal New York DA has failed to uphold the law for violent criminals, yet weaponized the law against political enemies. – Tim Scott	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When Black people in America have mental health issues, we can not treat them like criminal issues. – Ben Crump	Found on CNN 1 year ago
A criminal trial is not a search for truth. It is much too circumscribed for that. Rather, a trial is a formalized contest for the hearts and minds of a panel of twelve. It is a quest for a verdict in which information is selected and screened (we can almost say “processed”) before it is allowed to reach jurors. – Phillip Finch	added by Normando 1 year ago
I don’t think he did anything criminal, did I think he did something impeachable? Yes, I do. – Joe Tacopina	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Black boys … they often receive messages that you don’t belong, you’re a criminal you’re unintelligent, you’re a problem here, they are actually being devalued in the education system, so how would they imagine being teachers? – Vanessa Leroy/CNN Sharif El-Mekki	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I don’t know what is happening in America where law enforcement feels they can treat mental health issues like criminal issues. Especially if they are marginalized people of color. Especially if they are Black men. – Ben Crump	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In the criminal proceedings being investigated by our law enforcement officers, more than 16,000 forced deportations of Ukrainian children by the occupier have already been recorded. But the real, full number of deportees may be much higher, such a criminal operation would have been impossible without the order of the highest leader of the terrorist state. – Volodymyr Zelensky	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I am sorry, very sorry, for the injustice, the great injustice, that my office and the criminal justice system perpetrated upon you. There’s a lot to be learned from that, we are humbled by that lesson and we’ll take it to heart. I know that it’s not enough to say ‘I’m sorry,’ for 38 years in prison, and I realize that, and I’m humbled. – Martha Carrillo	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What needs to happen here is the Washington, DC, council and the mayor need to work together, the criminal code hasn’t been updated for 100 years. They didn’t get it entirely right when they went through the exercises over the last year. – Tom Carper	Found on CNN 1 year ago
No one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana, it’s legal in many states, and criminal records for marijuana possession have led to needless barriers to employment, housing, and educational opportunities. And that’s before you address the racial disparities around who suffers the consequences. While white and Black and brown people use marijuana at similar rates, Black and brown people are arrested, prosecuted, and convicted at disproportionate rates. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Zadachin is a Special Investigator assigned to the Chief Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. Zadachin ordered that a criminal case be initiated against Kara-Murza based on his speech before the Arizona House of Representatives. Zadachin requested that detention be ordered as a pre-trial restraint for Kara-Murza and defended this request in court. – The Treasury Department on Friday	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Sviridenko is the Russian Deputy Minister of Justice who oversees the prosecution of criminal cases, including the criminal case to which Kara-Murza is subject. Mishchenko is the judge who issued the initial ruling approving Kara-Murza’s arrest and sentenced him to 15 days in jail. Kozlov is the judge who denied Kara-Murza’s appeal of Mishchenko’s administrative arrest ruling. – Antony Blinken	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The governor is aware of the case, and the highest levels of law enforcement are participating in the investigation, including the Wyoming Department of Criminal Investigation and the FBI. – Michael Pearlman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
As a country, we should be supporting veterans who want to continue their service instead of harassing and intimidating them, i strongly support bipartisan efforts being undertaken by the House Armed Services Committee to protect our service members and hold criminal actors accountable. – Zach Nunn	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The report is the very first comprehensive effort to map and analyze attacks on Ukrainian health care infrastructure and personnel by Russian forces, the health care infrastructure in Ukraine has been deliberately targeted by Russian forces, which is absolutely prohibited in international humanitarian law and constitutes a war crime falling within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. – Iryna Marchuk	Found on CNN 1 year ago

When the knife lands you in prison, you're a criminal; when the pen leads you there, you're a fighter.

– Sir. Barron Qasem II

added by Aeqasem
2 months ago

The hostile climate many states are creating for the health care field by enacting criminal and other penalties for abortion care is an outcome whose reverberations we are only just beginning to see.

– Kelly Baden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He used politics to his own advantage to further not only his political career but also his criminal estate and criminal activities.

– Vikram Singh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was created for the express purpose of being able to alter votes and secure the reelection of Hugo Chavez and then Maduro. They’ve used it in Argentina, there is an American citizen who has exported it to other countries and it is one huge, huge criminal conspiracy that should be investigated by military intelligence for its national security implications.

– Sidney Powell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I definitely don’t think we need a death penalty. However, if Florida is going to have a death penalty … then it should be reliable and accurate, as reliable and accurate as a human criminal justice system can be, this return to non-unanimity is just devastating in terms of reliability.

– Maria DeLiberato

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Death and destruction are central to their criminal operation, to dominate the federal supply chain, the Chapitos kill, kidnap and torture anyone who gets in the way.

– Anne Milgram

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Josh McLemore wasn’t a criminal, he was mentally ill and in crisis. He was out of touch with reality and needed help. This is glaringly obvious to anyone who watches the videos of him in his isolation cell.

– Hank Balson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While it may be too late for the survivors to see criminal justice served, we hope that exposing the Archdiocese’s transgressions to the fullest extent possible will bring some measure of accountability and perhaps encourage others to come forward.

– Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I believe President Trump’s character and conduct make him unfit for office. Even so, I believe the New York prosecutor has stretched to reach felony criminal charges in order to fit a political agenda.

– Another Trump critic

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This pro-criminal New York DA has failed to uphold the law for violent criminals, yet weaponized the law against political enemies.

– Tim Scott

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When Black people in America have mental health issues, we can not treat them like criminal issues.

– Ben Crump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A criminal trial is not a search for truth. It is much too circumscribed for that. Rather, a trial is a formalized contest for the hearts and minds of a panel of twelve. It is a quest for a verdict in which information is selected and screened (we can almost say “processed”) before it is allowed to reach jurors.

– Phillip Finch

added by Normando
1 year ago

I don’t think he did anything criminal, did I think he did something impeachable? Yes, I do.

– Joe Tacopina

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Black boys … they often receive messages that you don’t belong, you’re a criminal you’re unintelligent, you’re a problem here, they are actually being devalued in the education system, so how would they imagine being teachers?

– Vanessa Leroy/CNN Sharif El-Mekki

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I don’t know what is happening in America where law enforcement feels they can treat mental health issues like criminal issues. Especially if they are marginalized people of color. Especially if they are Black men.

– Ben Crump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In the criminal proceedings being investigated by our law enforcement officers, more than 16,000 forced deportations of Ukrainian children by the occupier have already been recorded. But the real, full number of deportees may be much higher, such a criminal operation would have been impossible without the order of the highest leader of the terrorist state.

– Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am sorry, very sorry, for the injustice, the great injustice, that my office and the criminal justice system perpetrated upon you. There’s a lot to be learned from that, we are humbled by that lesson and we’ll take it to heart. I know that it’s not enough to say ‘I’m sorry,’ for 38 years in prison, and I realize that, and I’m humbled.

– Martha Carrillo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What needs to happen here is the Washington, DC, council and the mayor need to work together, the criminal code hasn’t been updated for 100 years. They didn’t get it entirely right when they went through the exercises over the last year.

– Tom Carper

Found on CNN
1 year ago

No one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana, it’s legal in many states, and criminal records for marijuana possession have led to needless barriers to employment, housing, and educational opportunities. And that’s before you address the racial disparities around who suffers the consequences. While white and Black and brown people use marijuana at similar rates, Black and brown people are arrested, prosecuted, and convicted at disproportionate rates.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Zadachin is a Special Investigator assigned to the Chief Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. Zadachin ordered that a criminal case be initiated against Kara-Murza based on his speech before the Arizona House of Representatives. Zadachin requested that detention be ordered as a pre-trial restraint for Kara-Murza and defended this request in court.

– The Treasury Department on Friday

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Sviridenko is the Russian Deputy Minister of Justice who oversees the prosecution of criminal cases, including the criminal case to which Kara-Murza is subject. Mishchenko is the judge who issued the initial ruling approving Kara-Murza’s arrest and sentenced him to 15 days in jail. Kozlov is the judge who denied Kara-Murza’s appeal of Mishchenko’s administrative arrest ruling.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The governor is aware of the case, and the highest levels of law enforcement are participating in the investigation, including the Wyoming Department of Criminal Investigation and the FBI.

– Michael Pearlman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As a country, we should be supporting veterans who want to continue their service instead of harassing and intimidating them, i strongly support bipartisan efforts being undertaken by the House Armed Services Committee to protect our service members and hold criminal actors accountable.

– Zach Nunn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The report is the very first comprehensive effort to map and analyze attacks on Ukrainian health care infrastructure and personnel by Russian forces, the health care infrastructure in Ukraine has been deliberately targeted by Russian forces, which is absolutely prohibited in international humanitarian law and constitutes a war crime falling within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.

– Iryna Marchuk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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