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Quotes About Verdict

curiosity is insubordination in its purest form"—the verdict against my father came to my mind.
~ Azar Nafisi
dispositive.
~ Barry Eisler
It's always good to have the right call in the end.
~ Petr Cech
Conservatives shouldn't count on the Supreme Court to do our work for us on Obamacare. The Court may rule as it should, and strike down the mandate. But it may not. And even if it does, the future of health care in America - and for that matter, the future of limited government - depends ultimately on the verdict of the American people.
~ Bill Kristol
I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.
~ Leonard Cohen
A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.
~ Thomas Francis Meagher
At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results.
~ Chuck Yeager
History passes the final judgment.
~ Sidney Poitier
No jury in this part of the world's going to say, We think you're guilty, but not very, on a charge like that. It was either straight acquittal or nothing.
~ Harper Lee
Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant.
~ Harper Lee
Guilty . . . guilty . . . guilty . . . guilty . . .
~ Harper Lee
That was the one thing that made me think, well, this may be the shadow of a beginning. That jury took a few hours. An inevitable verdict, maybe, but usually it takes 'em just a few minutes. This time—" he broke off and looked at us. "You might like to know that there was one fellow who took considerable wearing down—in the beginning he was rarin' for an outright acquittal.
~ Harper Lee
I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.
~ Leonard Cohen
The verdict of the world is conclusive.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
Rome has spoken; the case is concluded.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
... the final judge was truth -- immortal.
~ Eleanor Dark
Innocence is not a legal term. No one is ever found innocent in a court of law.
~ Michael Connelly
Aronson was getting at the fine line between seeking the truth and seeking a verdict in your client's favor. They weren't always the same thing.
~ Michael Connelly
A man who looks guilty is found guilty.
~ Michael Connelly
Un juicio es un concurso de mentiras. Y en la sala todo el mundo lo sabe.
~ Michael Connelly
Getting a not-guilty verdict was a long shot. Even when you knew in your gut that you were sitting next to an innocent man at the defense table, you also knew that the NGs came grudgingly from a system designed only to deal with the guilty.
~ Michael Connelly
the judge ignore it and drop
~ Michael Connelly
Back when I was riding patrol, you know what we called a killing that came down to simple street justice?" "What?" "The brass verdict.
~ Michael Connelly
Innocence is not a legal term. No one is ever found innocent in a court of law. No one is ever exonerated by the verdict of a jury. The justice system can only deliver a verdict of guilty or not guilty. Nothing else, nothing more.
~ Michael Connelly