Character Witness
Commentators have noted that the ability of defendants to call character witnesses can give an advantage to more affluent defendants. Affluent defendants can call, as character witnesses, celebrities, athletes, and prominent members of the community. In contrast, it is not unknown for death row inmates to sometimes call, as a character witness, fellow death row inmates.
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Famous quotes containing the words character and/or witness:
“Even in harmonious families there is this double life: the group life, which is the one we can observe in our neighbour’s household, and, underneath, another—secret and passionate and intense—which is the real life that stamps the faces and gives character to the voices of our friends. Always in his mind each member of these social units is escaping, running away, trying to break the net which circumstances and his own affections have woven about him.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)
“Someone said: “There are two people to whom I have never given a lot of thought: that bears witness to my love for them.””
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)