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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

- Warren E. Burger
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to 'discover' a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.

There can be no assumption that today's majority is 'right' and the Amish and others like them are 'wrong.' A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.