Quotes About Conviction

her lies, something came over him, maybe the Holy Spirit, and he just couldn't

While considering my decision in this case, I told a friend, a layman, I believed the facts and the law dictated that I must grant a new trial to a man who had been convicted and sentenced to death. My friend asked, "Is he a murderer?" I replied simply, "We won't know until he receives a fair trial." God help us, if ever in this great country we turn our heads while people who have not had fair trials are executed. That almost happened in this case.

No smile, not a trace of warmth or humor, all business. Could she really be a party to the wrongful conviction of a man who'd been on death row fifteen years? It was hard to believe.

Almost monthly I deal with self-righteous prosecutors who lie, cheat, stonewall, cover up, ignore ethics, and do whatever it takes to get a conviction, even when they know the truth and the truth tells them they are wrong. So I know the breed, the ilk, the subclass of lawyer who's above the law because he is the law. Huver

He presided over murder trials, studied forensics and knew more about the science than the experts, and, most importantly, he knew how much evidence was needed to convict. A helluva lot! Beyond a reasonable doubt. Far more than any low-paid cop had been able to find along his graveyard trail.

Hatred of McDover. And money. I convinced our mole that this could lead to riches. I just hope I don't get anyone killed.

Ten minutes ago, a bomb went off in the Old Courthouse, same courtroom Link got convicted in." I've been in that courtroom a hundred times, so, yes, I am shocked to hear it's been bombed. On the other hand, I'm not at all surprised to discover

And the story I can tell you involves more dirty cash than all the others combined. It also involves bribery, extortion, intimidation, rigged trials, at least two murders, and one wrongful conviction. There's a man rotting away on death row an hour from here who was framed. The man responsible for the crime is probably sitting on his boat right now, a boat much nicer than mine.

I am settled," she said, "in the ancient Roman Catholic religion, and mind to spend my blood in defense of it.

You develop faith by doing things that require faith.

Of all points of faith, the being of a God is, to my own apprehension, encompassed with most difficulty, and yet borne in upon our minds with most power.

You said you couldn't believe in anyone who didn't believe in you. I believed in you. You just didn't believe in me.

If I had to be anything, he told her, I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.

I you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

You've witnessed what you c-c-c-call a miracle and now you believe-you believe everything, Pastor Merrill said. But miracles don't c-c-c-cause belief-real miracles don't m-m-m-make faith out of thin air; you have to already have faith in order to believe in real miracles.

Mr. Merrill was most appealing because he reassured us that doubt was the essence of faith, and not faith's opposite.

WELL, NOW YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT GOD," said Owen Meany. "I CAN'T SEE HIM—BUT I ABSOLUTELY KNOW HE IS THERE!

BELIEF IS NOT AN INTELLECTUAL MATTER," he complained. "IF HE'S GOT SO MUCH DOUBT, HE'S IN THE WRONG BUSINESS.

The thing about sin, Jack, is that some people think it's very important and other people don't even believe it exists.

Of course, apologies are rarely acceptable to true believers—or to anyone who believes in pure good, or in pure evil.

Merrill was most appealing because he reassured us that doubt was the essence of faith, and not faith's opposite.

THINK OF HARDY AS A MAN WHO WAS ALMOST RELIGIOUS, AS A MAN WHO CAME SO CLOSE TO BELIEVING IN GOD THAT WHEN HE REJECTED GOD, HIS REJECTION MADE HIM FEROCIOUSLY BITTER.

May you be spared such a moment of recognition as this—namely, the conviction that most of your happiness lies behind you, and the lion's share of your loneliness looms ahead.

But in her first days with us, Susie was a bear on the rape issue—and on a lot of other issues, too.