Quotes About Trial

established under Magna Carta was the right to a trial by jury. For centuries, guilt or innocence had been determined, across Europe, either by a trial by ordeal—a trial by water, for instance, or a trial by fire—or by trial by combat. Trials by ordeal and

The most crucial right established under Magna Carta was the right to a trial by jury. For centuries, guilt or innocence had been determined, across Europe, either by a trial by ordeal—a trial by water, for instance, or a trial by fire—or by trial by combat. Trials by ordeal and combat required neither testimony nor questioning. The outcome was, itself, the evidence, the only admissible form of judicial proof, accepted because it placed judgment in the hands of God.

At trial, the judge said, "We are at war and you should not bother the president."3

Arson in 2-6, home invasion in 2-10, cocaine trafficking in 5-7: Pick a courtroom—any courtroom—and you'd be sure to be horrified.

That is a trial I must face," Veka said. "No, that is a multiheaded snake thing, Jig snapped.

Visionary companies make some of their best moves by experimentation, trial and error, opportunism, and—quite literally—accident. What looks in retrospect like brilliant foresight and preplanning was often the result of "Let's just try a lot of stuff and keep what works.

Coach Perkins will stand trial for second-degree murder in Cincinnati.

So sue me in the courts of Athens!

We learn, also, that those who do only THAT WHICH IS RIGHT, endure nothing in misfortune but a trial of their virtue, and from trials well endured derive the surest claim to the protection of heaven.

But innovation and invention do not only happen with smart people who have all of the answers. Innovation results from trial and error. The task is to make good mistakes, good errors, in the right direction.

After some time I fell into a lingering sickness like a consumption, together with lameness, which correction I saw the Lord sent to humble and try me and do me good: and it was not altogether ineffectual.

If we find the Achilles' heel," Teller told me, "thank God we found the Achilles' heel after $2 million instead of after $20 million.

If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.

My true passion is in the prosecution of criminal cases.

No matter what I do, I'll be forever known as the Manson prosecutor.

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor.

I was a prosecutor for 20 years.

Ask any lawyer - if a prosecutor thinks he can win a case, he'll prosecute it.

My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.

Every attendance at Mass leaves me without comfort or edification. I shall never, pray God, apostatize but church-going is now a bitter trial.

Bhutto's case was not a trial of murder, rather it was the overt murder of a trial -

La historia me absolverá!

If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.

You've got to experiment to figure out what works.