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I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.

The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.

The law is only our best approximation of justice, and the law needs constant revision.

The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression.

All decisions in the criminal justice system must be determined by the physical and scientific evidence, and the credible testimony corroborated by that evidence, not in response to public outcry.

Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.

I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes.

You have a good judicial system in the U.S., as you have learned from the Nixon-Watergate period.

An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.

Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.