Quotes About Verdict

I was about to rule this a dumbicide

There would be a trial and there would be a judge. The only problem was, there could only be one sentence.

I have to report the painful fact that they have no idea of submitting to a popular verdict if it goes against them; that applies to Spain as to France. If they are forced to it, they will find some man like Mussolini, to hold you down and keep their seat on your backs.

I was afraid she was on something." "No, she's just being Cheryl. Her courtroom rep is that she wins cases by talking the jury to death.

a bizarre footnote, in 2010 Julia Thomas's skull was unearthed in the garden of the broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough. A team of builders discovered the skull when they were excavating foundations for an extension, at the spot where the Rising Sun once stood. In July 2011, the West London coroner Alison Thompson formally identified the skull as belonging to Julia Thomas and recorded a verdict of unlawful killing.

Yeah. That's the problem with trials. Somehow they have it in their heads, the judge and jury, that they'll decide what's the truth. But the truth already happened. They can't decide what happened. They can only be right or wrong about it. Seems like too many times they're wrong.

Therefore, in accordance with our laws, I sentence you, Jenna of Saura, to death." Her

You know why they invented the phrase 'case closed'? What? So that the audience would know it wasn't.

Americans are still a fair and just people. They know the difference between racism and race-baiting, between violence and accusations of violence, between hatred and patriotism. Let them weigh the evidence for as long as they need, because when the verdict comes down, we will once again be on the right side.

I have given no summing up, no final verdict. Reality knows none.

He was fond of saying that, since to be in prison was simply not to live, the death penalty was the only merciful verdict any jury could deliver.

I ask to be judged on the issue of unemployment.

When a man's life is under debate, The judge can ne'er too long deliberate.

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

Trial by jury, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, will be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

Whatever befalls us has its meaning; though it is often hard to grasp. In the Book of Life every page has two sides. On the upper one, we inscribe our plans, dreams and hopes; the reverse is filled by providence, whose verdicts rarely match our desire.

He told her that every one of her enemies, all the masters and overseers of her suffering, would be punished, if not in this world then the next, for justice may be slow and invisible, but it always renders its true verdict in the end.

justice may be slow and invisible, but it always renders its true verdict in the end.

It was the first selection, the first verdict made on our existence or non-existence. For the great majority of our transport, about 90 percent, it meant death. Their sentence was carried out within the next few hours.

for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.

Mesquita spent two weeks assessing the "evidence" of guilt before passing judgment.

sentenced the other accused—in all, forty men—to death.

If jurors were looking for a way to come back finding for the UKA, Mays had given it to them. Senator Michael Figures made the plaintiff's final arguments. He had been there on Herndon Street the morning of the lynching, and he had seen Donald's body hanging from a tree. He had been