Quotes About Law

When you are rousted by the police, even with all my experience, you want to please.

You want to spend the night in jail?" "For what, asswipe? You going to arrest me on some trumped-up charge? Go ahead. I work for a law firm. I'll sue your ass back to the high school equivalency exam you probably never passed." More

When Myron got settled again, Esperanza said, "I want to talk to you about something." "Shoot." "It's about my graduating law school." "Okay," Myron said, dragging out the word.

When I was an assistant producer on A Current Affair. I booked you as an expert on the Robert Blake murder trial.' He turned to the spectators and bowed deeply. 'So, ladies and gentlemen, we've established the fact that I'm a media whore. Touché.' Another smattering of laughter. 'Still, Ms. Tynes, are you trying to tell the court that law enforcement was in favor of your journalistic twaddle to the point of cooperation?

What could Yeshua of Nazareth have made of Martin Luther's outburst Death to the Law! which in many German Lutherans who served Hitler became Death to the Jews! The Germans would not have crucified Jesus: they would have exterminated him at Auschwitz, their version of the Temple.

I think there might be a better way,change the law

La seule chose qui ne doive pas céder à la loi de la majorité est la conscience de l'individu

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.

A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.

Our courts have their faults, as does any human institution, but in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal.

on what we heard—" "Now don't you be so confident, Mr. Jem, I ain't ever seen any jury decide in favor of a colored man over a white man. . . ." But Jem took exception to Reverend Sykes, and we were subjected to a lengthy review of the evidence with Jem's ideas on the law regarding rape: it wasn't rape if she let you, but she had to be eighteen—in Alabama

Jean Louise grinned. Her father said it took at least five years to learn law after one left law school: one practiced economy for two years, learned Alabama Pleading for two more, reread the Bible and Shakespeare for the fifth. Then one was fully equipped to hold on under any conditions.

The only way in which all men in America are equal, is in the courtroom - Atticus

The law is what he lives by. He'll do his best to prevent someone from beating up somebody else, then he'll turn around and try to stop no less than the Federal Government—just like you, child. You turned and tackled no less than your own tin god—but remember this, he'll always do it by the letter and by the spirit of the law. That's the way he lives.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

Tat?l ei spunea c? e nevoie de cel puÈ›in 5 ani s? ajungi s? cunoÈ™ti dreptul dup? ce ai terminat facultatea: f?ceai economie doi ani, înv??ai regulile pentru elaborarea pledoariilor în Alabama înc? doi, reciteai Biblia È™i pe Shakespeare în cel de-al cincilea. Dup? care erai preg?tit s? faci fa?? în orice condiÈ›ii.

he won an acquittal for a colored boy on a rape charge.

that Tom had a good chance of going free, or at least of having a new trial.

suspendered old men who had spent their lives doing nothing and passed their twilight days doing the same on pine benches under the live oaks on the square. Attentive critics of courthouse business, Atticus said they knew as much law as the Chief Justice, from long years of observation.

But in the absence of eye-witness there's always a doubt, sometimes only the shadow of a doubt. The law says 'reasonable doubt', but I think a defendant's entitled to the shadow of doubt. There's always the possibility, no matter how improbable, that he's innocent.

You can't do that, Scout," Atticus said. "Sometimes it's better to bend the law a little in special cases. In your case, the law remains rigid. So to school you must go.

You know rape's a capital offense in Alabama," said Atticus. "Yessir

I doubt if we'd ever get a complete case tried—the ladies'd be interrupting to ask questions.

First thing you learn when you're in a lawin' family is that there ain't any definite answers to anything.