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Felix Frankfurter
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"Ours is an accusatorial and not an inquisitorial system -- a system in which the state must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured and may not by coercion prove its charge against an accused out of his own mouth."
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Felix Frankfurter
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(1882-1965) U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Source:
1961
Categories:
Constitution
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Individual Rights
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Jury
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Justice
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Law
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