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Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible [to apply].
Warren E. Burger
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Warren E. Burger
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: September 17
Died: 1995
Died: June 25
Former Chief Justice Of The United States
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St Paul
Minnesota
Warren Earl Burger
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A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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There may be some incorrigible human beings who cannot be changed except by God's own mercy to that one person.
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Doctors still retain a high degree of public confidence because they are perceived as healers. Should lawyers not be healers? Healers, not warriors? Healers, not procurers? Healers, not hired guns?
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There can be no assumption that today's majority is right and the Amish or others like them are wrong. A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no right or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet...to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.
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The notion that most people want black-robed judges, well-dressed lawyers and fine-paneled courtrooms as the setting to resolve their disputes is not correct. People with problems, like people with pains, want relief, and they want it as quickly and inexpensively as possible.
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It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to discover a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.
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There are many prices we pay for freedoms secured by the First Amendment the risk of undue influence is one of them, confirming what we have long known: Freedom is hazardous, but some restraints are worse.
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The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.
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[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.
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History is filled with examples of men and women who rendered highly effective performance without the conventional badges of accomplishment in terms of certificates, diplomas, or degrees. Diplomas and tests are useful servants, but Congress has mandated the commonsense proposition that they are not to become masters of reality.
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The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any.
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The State may justify a limitation on religious liberty by showing it is essential to accomplish an overriding governmental interest.
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The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
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To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
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