Over four hundred,000 people are arrested yearly in New York City and their rights need to be protected. However any real inroad upon the rights and opportunities for defence of a person charged with a breach of the law, whereby the understanding of justice is likely to be imperilled, I conceive to be a matter of the highest moment. This authorized plunder could also be solely an isolated stain among the legislative measures of the people. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and offers it to different individuals to whom it does not belong.
Our authorized expertise, research findings and contributions to topical debates are made accessible for a normal public of lawyers and law college students, non-lawyers, the press, and (civil) society. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. , associate justice, supreme court docket of Massachusetts, deal with delivered at the dedication of the new hall of Boston University College of Law, Boston, Massachusetts (January 8, 1897), Holmes, Deal with Delivered at the Dedication… (1897), p. 18.
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The president’s tweet about Michael Flynn and the ensuing declare of authorship by his lawyer sparked a weekend furor in authorized circles. When a portion of wealth is transferred from the one who owns it — with out his consent and with out compensation, and whether or not by drive or by fraud — to anybody who does not personal it, then I say that property is violated; that an act of plunder is committed.
The true which means of that maxim is that parties cannot excuse themselves from legal responsibility from all civil or felony consequences of their acts by alleging ignorance of the law, however there isn’t a presumption that events must be taken to know all of the legal consequences of their acts, and especially the place difficult questions of law, or of the observe of the Courtroom are involved.
