Prosecutor Quotes

You're not a prosecutor unless you've got your own issues with evil. - Scott Turow

Your job as a prosecutor is to get a conviction, just as your job as a defense attorney is to get an acquittal. - Marc Mauer

You see hardworking prosecutors who are trying to get the best jury they can to get a person convicted of a crime. - Robert Taylor

You learn as a prosecutor, you get a plan, you stick to your plan, and you don't let the press and the media coverage take you off your plan, because press and media coverage is based on limited knowledge. You also have to be even more focused than you otherwise would about jury protection and jury issues, because there isn't anyone who hasn't heard about the case. - Gerard Leone

You just don't have criminal trials dismissed because of prosecutorial misconduct, intentional or unintentional. - Allen Lichtenstein

You have supported the work of prosecutors dedicated to holding the perpetrators of these crimes accountable. - Salma Hayek

You get this local culture that develops in the legal system, these tough-on-crime judges -- usually former prosecutors -- who won't consider alternatives. Well, guess what, they end up with an alternative anyway, and that's letting them walk through the door early because of overcrowding. How is that tough on crime? - Allen Beck

With regard to the merit, I hope that the prosecutors will ask to close the case. - Niccolo Ghedini

Will not call into question the accuracy or completeness of anything Rove has previously said to the prosecutor or the grand jury. - Karl Rove