Indigent Criminal

Famous quotes containing the words indigent and/or criminal:

    Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.
    Clifford Irving (b. 1930)