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Evidence of innocence is irrelevant!
The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty.
He won an acquittal for a colored boy on a rape charge.
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.
Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.
A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty.
You wanted justice ,didn't you?There isn't any ... there is only love. - J.B's wife
The gladsome light of jurisprudence.
It's not about whether you are innocent or guilty. It's about whether or not you can prove you're innocent. If you can't prove you're innocent, then you're considered guilty. It's been flipped: Now it's guilty until proven innocent.
In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!
Such a young trial!
A pleasant trial is no trial.
We generally get the juries we deserve.
People make distinction between innocent and not guilty
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Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
Emotional truths woven by lawyers in the court of law are apparently more important than the truths of actual events. I have grown to fear for those whose innocence became trapped within the legal system.
If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.
But the Court of Criminal Appeals was not always a rubber stamp for the prosecution. Much to Mark Barrett's delight, he received the news on April 16, 1991, that a new trial had been ordered for Greg Wilhoit.
You could never prove innocence, not in the match with the man who only had to imply guilt.
Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction ... if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction the charge of the court is wrong.
Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial.
jurisprudence. I
Such verdicts are crimes against truth. The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
Whether a man is guilty or innocent, we have to find that out by due process of law.
suspected in the
Earlier today, the jury at the Martha Stewart trial reached a verdict. Martha was found guilty on all charges. In a related story, there's a huge sale at K-Mart.
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
Justice doesn't talk. It sings!
Contrary to common belief, the presumption of innocence applies only inside a courtroom. It has no applicability elsewhere, although the media do not seem to be aware of this.
This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.
Justice is the armed defense of innocent liberty.
During a trial, boy, you think, eat, sleep and crap only the trial.
Justice is what the judge ate for breakfast.
A guilty system recognizes no innocents.
I think it is very important for you to do two things: act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction; and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly
I thought justice ground real slow in Texas." "Only if you plead not guilty.
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
I've told you before I'm not guilty of anything; I'm just guilty, that's all.
(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.
Proving one's innocence is as improbable as going to Pluto for
a honeymoon. It could take away everything you had in life, dear
ones, dreams, hopes and, most importantly, the right to have your
freedom.
Justice is like a great home cooked meal; it may not come at the ideal time, but when it does it is served and delicious.
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.
Every man should be adjudged innocent until there was proof against him, and all the more when very suspect and malicious charges had already been thrown at him, and rang leaden as false coin.
There are offences given and offences not given but taken.
The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me.
You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.
Whatever was the conduct of England, I am equally arraigned.
The whole truth is a luxury. In case you are looking for it, a courtroom isn't the place to either start or end the search.
The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.
Your colleague, Captain Grimes, has been convicted before me on evidence that leaves no possibility of his innocence - of a crime (I might almost call it a course of action) which I can neither understand nor excuse. I dare say I need not particularise.
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.
If I had a teenage daughter, I'd be acquitted.
If it does not fit, you must acquit.
Had the jury convicted on proper instructions it would be the end of the matter. But juries are not bound by what seems inescapable logic to judges.
The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty ... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas.
We've begun to get justice.
Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.
The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday.
To hell with your courts, I know what justice is.
A trial was a stupid word, considering
that an attempt was never good enough: you were supposed to toe the line, period.
Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter.
The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.
I've been accused of almost every crime you can imagine.
There's no justice for the poor man. Money buys justice, and I have no doubt there's a great deal of money in that man's pockets to buy the finest judge on the bench.
To all of us who have been charged, we all agree that we don't feel like we were doing things that we weren't supposed to, because we were told to do them. We think everything was justified, because we were instructed to do this and to do that.
Precedent goes in support of justice.
before a jury. It takes time: time to
Conviction is the conscience of intellect.
Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.
The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.
Philippine President Joseph Estrada said he was saddened by the conviction. It's very unfortunate and what happened is saddening, ... If he really is innocent, then the day will come that his name will be cleared.
A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.
Justice?
You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law.
God will give me justice
I was falsely arrested twice, slandered and defamed.
You don't ask of Justice; it asks of you.
-Danny Rollings
You're certain to get a decision in a trial.
The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance.
I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what the charges that were lodged against me or my deceased parents at this time.
Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.
Why charge we Heav'n in those, in these acquit?
In both, to reason right is to submit.
Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
I think it's a complete injustice, the way it's (the trial) being done
Justice will prevail!
Convictions are prisons.
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
had come out and said - if not in so many words - that he was innocent of libel and that another truth existed. Precisely because she had not used the word "innocent," his innocence
Justice being served or not, being a victim carries a life sentence.
In Russia, less than one percent of trials end with an acquittal. With trials that were initiated for political reasons those chances are zero.
Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.
Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune ... has already brought him acquittal!
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.
Law and justice are not the same.
This is a very big victory for Michael and we are all very proud that he has been completely and totally vindicated in court, as we were certain he would be.
Justice is a mighty fine thing.
Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
One of the risks of a public trial is a public verdict.
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?
Nothing is more excruciating than waiting for the jury's verdict. Except, perhaps, hearing the jury's verdict.