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Learned Hand
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QUOTE: Our dangers do not
lie in too little tenderness to the accused. Our procedure has been always
haunted by the ghost of the innocent man convicted. It is an unreal dream. What
we need to fear is the archaic formalism and the watery sentiment that
obstructs, delays, and defeats the prosecution of crime.
AUTHOR: Billings Learned Hand (January 27, 1872 –
August 18, 1961) was a United States judge and judicial philosopher. He served
on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and
later the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Hand has been
quoted more often than any other lower-court judge by legal scholars and by the
Supreme Court of the United States.
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