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DNA exonerations have been responsible for releasing over 250 innocent people from prison. And it has helped expose cases of prosecutorial misconduct all over the country. Penn & Teller: Bullshit! s8e7: Criminal Justice, Showtime 2010
She was too honest, too natural for this frightened man; too remote from his tidy laws. She was, after all, a country girl; disordered, hysterical, loving. She was muddled and mischievous as a chimney-jackdaw, she made her nest of rags and jewels, was happy in the sunlight, squawked loudly at danger, pried and was insatiably curious, forgot when to eat or ate all day, and sang when sunsets were red. Laurie Lee, Cider with Rosie
We were green and innocent, not fully understanding what we did, imitating their rituals and roles were played out before us. Cider with Rosie ***** 2015 starring Samantha Mortin & Archie Cox & Ruby Ashbourne Serkis & Emma Curtis & Jessica Hynes & June Whitfield & Annette Crosbie & Timothy Spall & Billy Howle & Georgie Smith et al, director Philippa Lowthorpe, BBC 2015
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer. William Blackstone
There are no innocent Americans. George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. John Updike
Maybe I don’t really want to know what's going on. Maybe I’d rather not know. Maybe I couldn’t bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge. Margaret Atwood
In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way. Michael Jackson
I knew I was innocent and I knew it would come out the way it did. Carlos Marcello
All I have left is my innocence. Silent Witness 2011 starring Dermot Mulroney & Anne Heche & Michael Cudlitz & Anthony Ruivivar & Lisa Berry & Sarah Allen & Inga Cadranel & Judd Hirsch & Jayne Eastwood et al, director Peter Markle, Sam
Don’t care what people say
Just follow your own way
Don’t give up and use the chance
To return to innocence.
That’s not the beginning of the end
That’s the return to yourself
The return to innocence. Enigma, Return to Innocence
We are all special cases. We all want to appeal against something! Everyone insists on his innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven. Albert Camus
A heart unspotted is not easily daunted. The purest spring is not so free from mud. William Shakespeare, The First Part of the Contention II Henry VI III i 100-101, Gloucester
I doubt not then but innocence shall make
False accusation blush, and tyranny
Tremble at patience. William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale III ii 31
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. Voltaire, Zadig
The innocent and the beautiful
Have no enemy but time. W B Yeats
That’s what it takes to be a hero: a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end. Lise Hand
Innocence is always unsuspicious. Thomas C Haliburton
In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt. Amanda Cross, Poetic Justice, 1970
Innocence always calls mutely for protection, when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world meaning no harm. Graham Greene, The Quiet American, 1955
Innocence is a kind of insanity. Graham Greene, The Quiet American
All things truly wicked start from innocence. Ernest Hemingway
There is no aphrodisiac like innocence. Jean Baudrillard
Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone. Mary Astor, attributed
Innocence is ignorance. Lynne Reid Banks
O, white innocence,
That thou shouldst wear the mask of guilt to hide
Thine awful and serenest countenance
From those who know thee not! Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci V iii 24
The common law of England: the presumption of innocence: you know what you told me: the golden thread that runs through the history of the law. Rumpole of the Bailey s3e2: Rumpole and the Golden Thread, ITV 1983
Look me in the eye and tell me you’re innocent. Arthur & George III, Arthur to George, ITV 2015
And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy. William Golding, Lord of the Flies
And don’t make such an outcry about your feeling innocent, it spoils the not unfavourable impression that you make in other respects. Also you should be far more reticent, nearly everything you have just said could have been implied in your behaviour with the help of a word here and there, and in any case does not redound particularly to your credit. Franz Kafka, The Trial p11
Men who talked grossly became silent when Dorian Gray entered the room. There was something in the purity of his face that rebuked them. His mere presence seemed to recall to them the memory of the innocence that they had tarnished. They wondered how one so charming and graceful as he was could have escaped the stain of an age that was at once sordid and sensual. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
It breaks your soul down … It takes your decency and respect. After Innocence, victim, 2005
For every one of us up here, there’s hundreds more in prison. ibid. victims meet the press
It could happen to anybody, and it did. ibid. Barry Scheck
They found four different sperms in her and none of them were mine. ibid. victim of false rape charge
Now through DNA we have hard evidence that there is a lot more mistakes being made than we ever expected. That means there are thousands of people in jail today who could prove their innocence with DNA tests. ibid. Barry Scheck on Phil Donahue Show
My lawyer was the worst lawyer on the planet. The only time I saw him was at court. ibid. victim of false rape charge #2
The following is a true story that gripped the world. In August 1980, Lindy, Michael and their 3 children were on a camping holiday at Uluru (Ayres Rock) in Australia. Their baby daughter, just two months old, disappeared. Lindy claimed a dingo took and killed the baby. The authorities claimed Lindy murdered her baby. It became the trial in the outback that gripped the world. Accused: Trial in the Outback I, captions, Channel 5 2020
Two weeks into her life sentence, Lindy went into labour. ibid.
Seventh-Day Adventist Pastor Michael Chamberlain and his wife Lindy took their young family for a camping holiday to central Australia. ibid.
All night long theirs was a frantic search. Aboriginal trackers, park rangers and searchers found dingo tracks. The next day Michael and Lindy gave their statements to the police. ibid.