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I failed the test. He's right. It wasn't justice. Justice is dispassionate; it is fair. I am the leader. I passed the sentence. I should have done it. Instead, I gave license to vengeance and vendetta. The cancer will not be cut away; I made it worse.
Sorry' isn't a synonym for 'guilty.' It's a way to say you're listening.
Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean you're guilty of something.
(They) were found guilty of continuing to promote the merits of Laetrile in cancer therapy in violation of terms of probation they had originally secured following their 1973 conviction.
Forget, forgive; conclude, and be agreed.
Justice doesn't talk. It sings!
I'm absolutely, 100 percent, not guilty.
To determine to deny is to settle for violation
Whatever was the conduct of England, I am equally arraigned.
I hate it when people are wrongly convicted.
The gladsome light of jurisprudence.
If I claim full justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing - a thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales.
It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of a little mind; but it requires a soul of no common stamp to be satisfied with its own acquittal, and to despise the condemnation of the world.
The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.
I knew I was coming home, I thought they would consider acquittal, I was disappointed that they didn't.
suspected in the
If a jury of your peers finds you not guilty, I will reinstate you back into baseball.
Let's not interfere with justice ... Let's let justice speak.
Yes, guilty.' It is better to let ten who are guilty go, than to punish one who is innocent - do you hear, do you hear this majestic voice from the last century of our glorious history?
Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.
There were eleven votes for "guilty." It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.
Never saw a point in showing up for jury duty. I already know I'm going to vote guilty." Ari's mouth made a tiny O, and she put her hand to her heart. "What about justice?"
"It is justice. Whoever they are, they're guilty of making me show up for jury duty.
In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!
The justice I have received, I shall give back.
You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty.
This is a court of law, not a court of justice.
traveled to the defendant's attorney and locked
WILL YOU YIELD AND THIS AVOID, OR GUILTY IN DEFENSE BE THUS DESTROY'D?
But I will plead not guilty until death. I will plead not guilty until there is proof to the contrary.
When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.
No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.
Present the court with the next logical step,
Conviction's contagious as virus spreads.
There is no crime of which I cannot conceive myself guilty.
You don't ask of Justice; it asks of you.
-Danny Rollings
It's unnecessary to make that, you know, strong of a statement. Let the facts, let the case, you know, and the evidence there speak for itself. You want to be careful that you're not poisoning the jury pool.
When you're exonerated, then the people who wrongly accused you should have the guts to stand up and say, "I'm sorry."
I've told you before I'm not guilty of anything; I'm just guilty, that's all.
I accept my punishment and will begin serving my suspension immediately.
May your wife and children get raped, right in the ass. (to the jurors who convicted her)
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain.
Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree;
Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree,
Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!
Sleep in peace, you members of the jury who condemned me to this place; sleep in peace,
Dumbfounded, I stood before the court, trying to figure out if there was a state of being between "guilty" and "innocent." Why were those my only alternatives? I thought. Why couldn't I be "neither" or "both"? After a long pause, I finally faced the bench and said, "Your Honor, I plead human.
They found him guilty, and brother, if Maine had the death penalty, he would have done the airdance before that spring's crocuses poked their heads out of the dirt.
You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
Never let the law interfere with justice.
[S]ilence supports the accuser's charge?
Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.
We just have to find out what he's guilty of.
before a jury. It takes time: time to
God will give me justice
Jigga, Kells, Not Guilty
justice. At least he will serve some time and live with the guilt forever." "That's
I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.
If you believe you are guilty and deserve to be punished, you are asking for it!
Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter.
The verdict of the world is conclusive.
This bastard is so guilty he already has his lawyer here.
Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice.
I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.
If you intend to insist on justice in order to live a successful and happy life, you will not do so in this lifetime, on this planet.
This is a court of law! Not a court of truth!
jurisprudence. I
Such verdicts are crimes against truth. The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
Justice?
You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law.
The world's verdict is conclusive.
Such a young trial!
To seek truth and to utter what one believes to be true can never be a crime. No one must be forced to accept a conviction. Conviction is free.
Anybody who understands the justice system knows innocent people are convicted every day.
Let the guilty bury the innocent, and let no one change the evidence
The verdicts today should send the message that within the police department there is no greater betrayal of the badge and of the brotherhood than to ensnare another officer in a web of lies and deceit.
Justice is putting everything in its proper place
The word "conviction" means to expose.
Most of the time, perhaps 99 percent of the time, the defendant is guilty; his screams are the final protest of a human being about to lost his most precious possession, his freedom.
As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience.
Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.
I hope we have not sunk so low in American society that plain, simple, justice according to the Constitution must be regarded as a perk. Police
The world has experienced a revival of an old faith in the everlasting moral force of justice. At no time in history has there been a more important Conference, or a more necessary meeting, than this one in San Francisco, which you are opening today.
A fantastic thing is happening in our world. Today a man is no longer punished only for the crimes he has in fact committed. Now he may be compelled to confess to crimes that have been conjured up by his judges, who use his confession for political purposes.
Not guilty doesn't mean you're innocent.
A shocked sense of justice has to be removed and justice restored.
A jury of inquest was impaneled, and after due deliberation and inquiry they returned the inevitable American verdict which has been so familiar to our ears all the days of our lives - "NOBODY TO BLAME.
Justice is the sanction of established injustice.
Let the ones who seek justice be just.
Raise both your hands if you think you can get a fair trial in this country. There, now the stupid among you have dropped the book and the rest of us can continue on.
You are not guilty of anything until you are charged and tried.
It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
Since the Justice Department refuses to allow you to render a verdict, I'm going to present the case now, on the facts, against Hillary Rodham Clinton.
There are offences given and offences not given but taken.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil.
As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.
To hell with your courts, I know what justice is.
absolute silence of the courtroom,
Object to that as well. The judge said,
In time the truth will come out, I will be cleared.
Captain, you have heard the charges. How do you plead? Before you answer, you should know that if you plead "guilty" you'll be immediately extradited and U.N.S. law will take over."
"Not guilty."
"Also, it's not very nice to lie in court."
"But it beats extradition.