Quotes About Truth

Also, I'm not going to be devastated or anything either way. I'm not that kind of person. I just think if you don't say the honest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true, you know, and I—" she says, but then I hold up my finger, because I need to hear the thing she just said, and she talks too fast for me to keep up. I keep holding up my hand, thinking if you don't say the honest thing, it never becomes true.

Nothing is real unless we look at it, and it ceases to be real as soon as we stop looking.

Like so many, this trial is not about the truth; it's about winning.

As in any war, the truth is the first casualty.

I thought they were honest.' 'They are, but they're bankers, remember.

Perhaps in another era, a trial was an exercise in the presentation of facts, the search for truth, and the finding of justice. Now a trial is a contest in which one side will win and the other side will lose. Each side expects the other to bend the rules or to cheat, so neither side plays fair. The truth is lost in the melee.

I believe in God," he said, truthfully but weakly. "It's easy to say that," she said, her words still slow and soft. "And I don't doubt you. But saying is one thing, living is another matter.

And it's often the one you trust the most who'll cut your throat for the right price.

The presumption of innocence is now the presumption of guilt. The burden of proof is a travesty because the proof is often lies. Guilt beyond a reasonable doubt means if he probably did it, then let's get him off the streets.

About a month later, Riggins changed his mind. In an interview with the police, he said he was incorrect about Ron Williamson, that in fact the man he heard doing the confessing was Glen Gore.

The prosecution was forced into the bizarre position of admitting Ward and Fontenot were lying while asking the jurors to believe them

Deck has reduced the Canons of Ethics to the Big Three: Fight for your client, don't steal, try not to lie.

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.

Hearing the truth is like grabbing smoke in our family

Hearing the truth is like grabbing smoke in our family," Joel said.

drug charge. When I asked Lonnie about it

As I told you before, it's fairly easy to convict an innocent man and virtually impossible to exonerate one.

John Grisham

nothing in Claudia's name.

Jak na ka?dej wojnie, prawda jest pierwsz? ofiar?.

I'm happy to see you've found a church home, Abby," her father said piously. For years he had led the prayer each Sunday at the First Methodist Church in Danesboro, and the other six days he had tirelessly practiced greed and manipulation. He had also steadily but discreetly pursued whiskey and women. An

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

Tell the truth, she advised him, and everything will be fine.