(37 quotes found)
“HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another --the classification is for advantage of the lawyers.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs -- unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.”
Hunter S. Thompson
“The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context. The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.”
Carl Bernstein
“I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.”
Jack Tatum
“I don't think it would be in the interest of justice to put a felony charge on him.”
Chris Chiles
“It is significant and punishing to suffer a felony conviction. A lot of doors get closed. However, becoming a millionaire can buy you a lot of new doors to open.”
Craig Silverman
“The charges he had was a felony warrant for obtaining workers comp via fraud.”
Carlos Torres
“It makes it really hard to show if their product has been tampered with, if it's a felony to inspect it.”
Rebecca Mercuri
“I don't know how you can read into that because we've never had a felony charge before. How it could be uneven, I don't know.”
Dave Braine
“We considered two charges, felony stalking and assault with a deadly weapon, and found there was insufficient evidence on both.”
William Hodgman
