Quotes About Verdict

The truth is that no one ever knew how Joseph Buquet met his death. The verdict at the inquest was natural suicide. In

Usually when you do a pilot, there's a moment where all of the executives get together and say thumbs up or down.

Rome has spoken; the case is closed.

The reader is the final arbiter.

The time has come for professional jurors.

CHAPTER XLIX MISS TREFOIL'S DECISION

CHAPTER LXIX SCROBBY'S TRIAL

I have spoken, you have heard, you have the facts, judge

I]n scientific matters it is always experience, and never authority without experience, that gives the final verdict, whether in favour or against.

Which of them said which has never been determined, and does not matter, since they all had the same ideas and expressed them always with the same ponderance and brassy assurance. If it was not Babbitt who was delivering any given verdict, at least he was beaming on the chancellor who did deliver it. (p. 116)

Un processo è sempre breve quando un giudice ha già pronunziato in anticipo la sentenza

Hang 'em first, try 'em later.

No case is really answered until it has had a fair hearing

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.

I have no special regard for Satan; but I can at least claim that I have no prejudice against him. It may even be that I lean a little his way, on account of his not having a fair show. All religions issue bibles against him, and say the most injurious things about him, but we never hear his side. We have none but the evidence for the prosecution, and yet we have rendered the verdict. To my mind, this is irregular. It is un-English; it is un-American; it is French.

On the inquest it was shown that Buck Fanshaw, in the delirium of a wasting typhoid fever, had taken arsenic, shot himself through the body, cut his throat, and jumped out of a four-story window and broken his neck—and after due deliberation, the jury, sad and tearful, but with intelligence unblinded by its sorrow, brought in a verdict of death by the visitation of God. What could the world do without juries?

They swore in the jury, and then the lawyer for the prostitution got up and begun.

The average doctor in a high-risk practice like surgery or obstetrics is sued about once every six years. Seventy percent of the time, the suit is either dropped by the plaintiff or won by the doctor in court. But the cost of defense is high, and when doctors lose, the average jury verdict is half a million dollars. General

Your mind is your only judge of truth--and if others dissent your verdict, reality is the final court of appeal. John Galt

Case fuckin closed.

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.

If it doesn't fit, then you must acquit.

Litigants obey the verdict of a tribunal solely on the premise that there is an objective rule of conduct, which they both accept.

It is the act of unfocusing your mind and inducing an inner fog to escape the responsibility of judgment—on the unstated premise that a thing will not exist if only you refuse to identify it, that A will not be A so long as you do not pronounce the verdict 'It is.