Quotes About Verdict

A trial is nothing but a competition to tell the best story. Whoever sways the jury wins the trial.

Hitler is still such a popular man; we are afraid of the Hitler myth. We want to give to the German people and to the world the final proof by means of the Supreme Court-Martial and its verdict.

Fair' is in the eye of the beholder; 'free' is the verdict of the market. The word 'free' is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with 'freedom.' The word 'fair' is not used in either of our founding documents.

Some of them she had seen for four years without exchanging a word. But that was how high school worked; it issued a verdict and you behaved accordingly.

Hard cases make bad law" is another way the tragic vision has been expressed. To help some hard-pressed individual or group whose case is before them, judges may bend the law to arrive at a more benign verdict in that particular case—but at the cost of damaging the whole consistency and predictability of the law, on which millions of other people depend, and on which ultimately the freedom and safety of a whole society depend.

When a man was found dead at the well in 1630 after having made scoffing remarks about its supposed powers a local jury brought in a verdict of death by divine judgement.74

but as anybody who's ever been involved with the law will tell you, facts aren't always or even usually what decides a case.

He believed that every individual was responsible for his conduct on earth, that there was a judge within. Could even a blazingly Christ inflict greater retribution? Could Dante's Charon in his rowboat on the river Acheron whip the miscreants into a deeper, more everlasting hell than man's unvarnished verdict of himself?

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.

The ultimate umpire of all things in life is - fact.

The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty.

It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court.

Human beings are afflicted by a need to judge.

Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.

Let the judges answer to the question of law, and the jurors to the matter of fact.

The sword of the law should never fall but on those whose guilt is so apparent as to be pronounced by their friends as well as foes.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Ares gives his verdict without witnesses.

Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.

Whether a man is guilty or innocent, we have to find that out by due process of law.

Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.