Quotes About Trial

A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.

To the contrary, I believe the U.S. military has already done all that has been asked of them. Saddam Hussein is on trial. The threat from alleged weapons of mass destruction programs in Iraq has been neutralized.

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

The jury could get the case as early as next week, but the defense says they just want to introduce one last-minute load of crap.

I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court.

Courtroom dramas can be boring.

I was interested in getting courtroom experience. When I was a young lawyer, the only way I could get real courtroom experience was in the criminal law field.

It's always been my dream to be an attorney, and I'm that weird breed of human being that loves being in a courtroom.

You only learn if you're given a crack at things.

With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on.

It won't be easy, given that some courts have ruled that even sleeping through your client's trial is not enough to qualify.

We have to prove that Rennell Price's trial lawyer was so incompetent that his client was denied the effective assistance of counsel granted by the Sixth Amendment. It won't be easy, given that some courts have ruled that even sleeping through your client's trial is not enough to qualify.

Nothing is more excruciating than waiting for the jury's verdict. Except, perhaps, hearing the jury's verdict. Alan Christoffersen's diary

It takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection. Except for my parents. They got it on the first try.

For someone who'd spent most of his adult life fearful of getting girls pregnant, I thought my unexpected paternal trial was turning out reasonably well.

and massive numbers of assumptions are tested.

It was as a result of his courage that two white men were on trial for killing a Negro, a trial in which, whatever the result, "there is a kind of majesty. And we owe that sight to Mose Wright, who was condemned to bow all his life, and had enough left to raise his head and look the enemy in those terrible eyes when he was sixty-four.

That is the doctrine, simple, ancient, true; Such is life's trial, as old earth smiles and knows. If you loved only what were worth your love, Love were clear gain, and wholly well for you: Make the low nature better by your throes! Give earth yourself, go up for gain above!

Too long I've owed you this apology For the apparently unmeaning sorrow You were afflicted with in those old days. But it was of the essence of the trial You shouldn't understand it at the time.

The gathering of the souls for birth, The trial by existence named. The obscuration upon earth.

Addie Moore had a grandson named Jamie who was just turning six. In the early summer the trouble between his parents got worse. There were bad arguments in the kitchen and bedroom, accusations and recriminations, her tears and his shouts. They finally separated on a trial basis and she went off to California to stay with a friend, leaving Jamie with his father. He called Addie and told her what happened, that his wife had quit her job as a hairdresser and had gone out to the West Coast.

Is this a trial of thoughts, or of kittens?' demanded the Woggle-Bug. 'It's a trial of one kitten,' replied the Scarecrow; 'but your manner is a trial to us all.

In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict.

If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me.