Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.
Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.
I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.
Judges are real people with real-world experiences and backgrounds. We cannot expect them to erase their experiences and backgrounds from the mindset that informs their judicial decision-making.
If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.
You never know when you lose a case whether it was because the facts were against you, or because the judges had already made up their minds, or if you could have done something differently.
Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.
Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.