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Quotes About Verdict

Racism is what acquitted O. J. Simpson.
~ Katherine Ryan
Professionalism in law has brought us the O.J. Simpson case in lieu of justice.
~ Bill James
Hope is a punishable offence. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.
~ Tanith Lee
The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
~ Friedrich Schiller
In civil or criminal litigation in a jury case, the only way for a defendant to avoid a trial is for a judge to rule that there was no evidence from which the jury could find for the other side.
~ George T. Conway III
There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.
~ John Grisham
You're certain to get a decision in a trial.
~ John Barth
Unless you go to trial, you don't know what the truth is.
~ Sooraj Pancholi
When you think about it, a trial is not really about what the truth is, it's about which barrister is better at persuading those 12 people to believe their story.
~ Nicholas Hammond
We should not televise trials. There's only one purpose for a criminal trial. It's to determine whether or not the defendant committed the crime. Anything that interferes or has the potential of interfering with that should automatically be prohibited.
~ Vincent Bugliosi
Citizens of Boston had been slain, but Boston juries acquitted all the soldiers of murder.
~ Stephen P. Halbrook
G. W. Smith had failed Robert E. Lee's test for command in battle, and from that verdict there was no appeal.
~ Stephen W. Sears
Let us therefore agree that the idea of eternal return implies a perspective from which things appear other than as we know them: they appear without the mitigating circumstance of their transitory nature. This mitigating circumstance prevents us from coming to a verdict. For how can we condemn something that is ephemeral, in transit? In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.
~ Milan Kundera
Let us therefore agree that the idea of eternal return im­plies a perspective from which things appear other than as we know them: they appear without the mitigating circumstance of their transitory nature. This mitigating circumstance prevents us from coming to a verdict. For how can we condemn something that is ephemeral, in transit? In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.
~ Milan Kundera
with the perspective of eternal return, things appear without the mitigating circumstance of their transitory nature. This mitigating circumstance prevents us from coming to a verdict. How can we condemn something that is ephemeral, in transit? In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.
~ Milan Kundera
In the jury selection process, the court needs to be reassured that the verdict will be based on evidence.
~ Carl Sagan
The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.
~ Publilius Syrus
I'm not a judge.
~ Nancy Grace
The judiciary is entitled to finally resolve a dispute. Not every decision is right.
~ Kapil Sibal
The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
~ Samuel Chase
I believe in the jury system.
~ O. J. Simpson
I am finally glad to see that the jury is looking at me.
~ Gary Gilmore
I have faith in the jury system.
~ Nancy Grace
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.
~ Clarence Darrow