Sunday, August 10, 2008

Jeremy Bentham

`Innocence claims the right of speaking, as guilt invokes the privilege of silence'.
A Treatise on Judicial Evidence (1825), 241.

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1 comment:

  1. AnonymousAugust 11, 2008 at 6:58 AM

    How very simple, yet profoundly true! In my experience, though, the guilty eventually need to speak...to someone (if not their counsel)

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