A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.

These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.

We dedicated ourselves to a powerful idea - organic law rather than naked power. There seems to be universal acceptance of that idea in the nation.

We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately by the offender, we cannot say that the punishment is invariably disproportionate to the crime. It is an extreme sanction suitable to the most extreme of crimes.