"You mean costs compared to the $35 million verdicts they're getting for wrongfully convicting people?"

"Otherwise, I'd be convicting people for their ideas."

In New York, the laws make it hard to convict such people, assuming that they are even charged to begin with.

Terrible statement sometimes, but the government needs to make sure they convict people properly by acquiring enough evidence about them.

The possibility of convicting and executing innocent people?

The Constitution doesn't allow prosecutors to convict people because they're doing something morally wrong.

I convicted people on half the evidence that we had for this case.

Many resulted from police fabricating evidence to convict people they thought were guilty, or simply to get a high conviction rate.

The steps, if approved, will make it easier to convict people of membership in a terrorist organization.

In democratic Europe we do not convict people on the basis of assumptions, without any evidence.