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Quote from Felix Frankfurter,


"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."


By:

Felix Frankfurter (more quotes by Felix Frankfurter or books by/about Felix Frankfurter)


(1882-1965) U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Source:

1961

Categories:

Constitution, Individual Rights, Jury, Justice, Law

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