Gerald Ford actually said...

I hope that the sound discretion of our Federal district court judges will minimize the possibility that a defendant will be unnecessarily exonerated from punishment for a serious offense without ever having undergone a trial.

Context

Statement on Signing the Speedy Trial Act of 1974

01/03/1975

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