Sentence examples for appearance of justice from inspiring English sources

The Supreme Court has sermonized that "justice requires the appearance of justice".

Perhaps most famously articulated by US supreme court justice Felix Frankfurter in 1954, it holds that justice alone is not sufficient: "Justice must satisfy the appearance of justice".

The Court continued, "to work effectively, it is important that society's criminal process satisfy the appearance of justice," Offutt v. United States, 348 U.S. 11, 14 (1954), and the appearance of justice can best be provided by allowing people to observe it".

The United States Supreme Court elaborated in Offutt v. United States, 348 U.S. 11 (1954) that justice requires the appearance of justice, i.e., like Caesar's wife, justice must be above suspicion.

In essence, this has been a political show trial from the beginning, seems to have been designed to give the appearance of justice rather than what it actually is: political retribution.

JOHN P. MacKENZIE Long Island City, Queens, June 13 , 2013The writer, a former editorial writer for The New York Times and a former Supreme Court reporter for The Washington Post, is the author of "The Appearance of Justice".

A cellphone video that emerged of Hussein's hanging, and the pro-Shiite taunts that accompanied it, underscored the appearance of victors' justice.

You write that the "single most crucial requirement" for the coming trial of Saddam Hussein is "preserving the appearance of impartial justice".

The failure to sign up to the UN resolution establishing the court by the US, Russia, China and many of the major regional powers of the Islamic world, makes it hard to deny the appearance of the justice of the powerful against the weak.

The mere appearance of a justice system-imposed obligation on someone's credit history can flag a criminal history even if a court has sealed or erased a person's criminal record, or if the conviction information is years old, making it even more difficult to land a job.

It is simply because one might argue -- reasonably so -- that the mere "appearance" of a justice sitting on the case (even though he exercised only one vote) was in issue: that it would "look bad," or that in the unassuming words of the federal disqualification statute, "his impartiality might reasonably be questioned".