Quotes About Verdict

A conviction is in the nature of a verdict and judgment, and therefore it must be precise and certain.

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.

A jury verdict is just a guess - a well-intentioned guess, generally, but you simply cannot tell fact from fiction by taking a vote.

A jury could only declare my son 'not guilty', never 'innocent'.

On the issue of evolution, the verdict is still out on how God created the Earth.

It's up to history to judge.

History passes the final judgment

Hung verdict would have meant anger against previous govt; Clear verdict to BJP shows people voted for hope and aspiration.

Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.

The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.

By the rules of evidence in this trial the verdict is foreordained. If the testimony ... is admitted as competent, the conspiracy is proved. Because it would not be admitted except under the assumption that a conspiracy existed.... Here ... a defendant can be found guilty of being brought to court as a defendant.

This word is composed of jus and dictio, juris dictio or a speaking and pronouncing of the law.

let your verdict be so emphatic it will circle the globe as a reminder to all men everywhere that force of any kind has no place in this world, including the world of business.

I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.

We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.

The verdict of this court is that the accused are guilty of witchcraft. The maximum penalty the law allows is to be burned to death.However, in view of your previous good background I am disposed to be lenient. I therefore sentence you to be burned alive.

You might say as you tirelessly said of my stories, at least of the adjectives, that I should render the evidence, not render the verdict... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")

What was it that the eighteenth-century traveller said about Mull? 'Italy itself, with all the assistance of art, can hardly afford anything more beautiful and diverting'. On this blessed September evening that verdict needs no amendment.

The idea that trials are a search for the truth is just a myth. Trials are a search for that which the jury will believe is the truth.

knows that courtroom

The reader is the final arbiter.

These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. (describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial)