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Quotes About Trial

I began to fear that I was forever going to be living in a hot desert cage, living as and being treated as a male, disappearing from the world into a secret prison, and never facing a public trial.
~ Chelsea Manning
After years of hiding and holding off because of the trial, I finally announced my intent to change my name and transition to living as woman on 22 August 2013 - the day following my sentencing - a personal high point for me, despite my other circumstances.
~ Chelsea Manning
Many low-income people in the U.S.A. charged with a crime opt to plead guilty to a lesser offence because they cannot afford to go to trial.
~ Guy Standing
I tend to be a fairly spirited person, but I've never hated anyone more than I hated Christian Longo after his trial, when I realized his guilt and that I had been partially duped.
~ Michael Finkel
I think the O.J. Simpson trial was a revelation about the ongoing patterns of racial difference in American society.
~ Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
When a government forcibly holds enough people indefinitely without trial, it evokes the kinds of raids, detention, and abuses of power associated with authoritarian states - or darker periods in American history.
~ Ari Melber
I think probably, you know, from my perspective, the folks who say a sitting president cannot be indicted have the better of the argument that the president can't be indicted - put, you know, through a criminal trial while he is president - and that the proper way to do it is to impeach him first, remove him, and then seek criminal prosecution.
~ Neal Katyal
I had nothing to lose at my Fulham trial and I just gave it my all.
~ Chris Smalling
Under the dual sovereignty principle, the Fifth Amendment's prohibition on double jeopardy - which prevents the government from trying someone twice for the same crime - doesn't apply if the second trial is by a different 'sovereign' - in this case, the state.
~ Asha Rangappa
Trial lawyers can sue people in the state of Missouri, and because of how broken the system is, if they win just one dollar for their client, they still get paid huge legal fees. For too long in this state, trial lawyers have picked our people's pockets.
~ Eric Greitens
It is a travesty that I have to stand trial because I spoke about fewer Moroccans.
~ Geert Wilders
I went to Borussia Dortmund on trial with a bag and some clothes, not knowing what my next move was going to be.
~ Paul Lambert
Unless you go to trial, you don't know what the truth is.
~ Sooraj Pancholi
I'm a trial attorney and I specialize in defense civil litigation. My firm represents businesses and organizations in whatever aspect they get sued, whether it's commercial litigation, to personal injury, liability, contracts, we litigate for them on their behalf.
~ Rachel Lindsay
We are not living up to Thomas Jefferson's idea of what a trial by jury means.
~ Glenne Headly
At 25, I found myself anchoring coverage of President Clinton's impeachment trial from Capitol Hill for WTVH-TV in my hometown of Syracuse, New York. I then covered Hillary Clinton's first Senate run.
~ David Muir
The O. J. Simpson trial was the launching-off point for a lot of our pop culture and news culture habits and touchstones.
~ Rich Eisen
The 'progressive' tax-and-spend agenda has been put on trial. The policies not only lead to much slower growth but also benefit the rich and politically well-connected at the expense of everyone else.
~ Stephen Moore
Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.
~ Lando Norris
The trial of Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has kept me fascinated and shocked in equal measure. But like many women, I was relieved this week when he was found guilty of culpable homicide after killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
~ Katie Piper
Tort reform is important. We need to prevent trial lawyers from killing good jobs.
~ Eric Greitens
Many aspects of the George Zimmerman trial have deeply affected me.
~ Drew Pinsky
I went to Cardiff on trial for six weeks and felt I did really well, but then they turned around and said they weren't going to sign me. It was a bitter pill to swallow because Hereford, where I was playing at the time, were scrapping their youth team, so I didn't have any other options.
~ Jarrod Bowen
From my point of view, the Dreyfus affair is most interesting because it was sparked by a single cause celebre. Just one court case - one disputed trial - plunged an entire country into an angry debate, creating unresolvable divisions between people who had previously not known that they disagreed with one another.
~ Anne Applebaum