Quotes About Court

In nature, there is no concept of possession or property hence there is no thief, police, or court of law.

Crime 101: There's a word for a man who believes in coincidence: the defendant.

Many a time a poor soul has been put before the dock, to save the neck of the wealthy.

Car là encore ces hommes se livraient à quelque chose de grotesque lorsqu'ils embêtaient leur famille pour qu'elle leur achète un costume tout neuf pour leur procès. Les tribunaux ne prenaient jamais en considération la tenue des inculpés. Ils auraient pu comparaître dans des sacs à pommes de terre, les juges n'en avaient rien à faire. La seule chose qui comptait était la couleur de leur peau et les chefs d'accusation.

Suzanne had totally forgotten about their court date since she'd been a little busy having tons of condom-free sex with Ryder, planning Nikki's wedding, and forming a placenta.

The only thing we're supposed to do is get Mrs. Allred off.

as incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial.

Madoff received so many death threats that he started wearing a bulletproof vest to his court appearances. Protestors sometimes gathered outside his apartment building, including an angry Wall Street trader who arrived on January 14 with a huge sign reading, "Bernie, it's not too late to do the right thing: JUMP!

Madame d'Aulnoy is the true mother of the modern fairy tale. She invented the modern Court of Fairyland, with its manners, its fairies, its queens, its amorous, its cruel, its good, its evil, its odious, its friendly fées.

One of his best techniques was buying off the clerks that handled the procedural work for judges. We found numerous examples of major cases that were dismissed or postponed because a clerk lost evidence or changed filings, creating procedural errors.

A popular saying at King Vizimir's court held that if Dijkstra states it is noon yet darkness reigns all around, it is time to start worrying about the fate of the sun.

É preciso comprovar a culpa, e não a inocência.

He turned his head and caught the queen's venomously green glance.

Three days after that Emperor Ferret signed an insane decree: every man who wished to stay at court must be castrated. He was mad, no doubt of it; but the men who preferred mutilation to leaving the court were madder.

Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels.

A Supreme Court justice must convince at least four colleagues to bind the federal government nationwide, whereas a district court judge issuing a nationwide injunction needn't convince anyone.

Wherever they have been arraigned, a plain charge has been exhibited against them. They have had an impartial trial and have been permitted to make their defense.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

The grand jury's job is not to weigh the evidence from both sides; it is only to decide whether there is enough evidence on one side to bring a person to trial.

I think the court will determine that the Faith-Based Initiative that the White House has instituted in the last five years is constitutional, in the context of allowing for broad-based programs to include religious providers.

The obligation of the judge in the circuit is to follow the previous decisions in the circuit unless those decisions are overruled by an en bloc panel of the court.

The Court's primary duty, in short, is not to minimize its role or avoid friction with the political branches, but to try as best it can to get the Constitution right.

When I came back from my honeymoon, I was informed that it was not appropriate for a princess to be involved in trade. This came from the court. What about my income? That was my problem, I was told.

Merely implying bias due to a judge's ethnic heritage is wrong as a matter of principle and legally illegitimate.