Quotes About Court

In mid-February 1804, Hamilton journeyed to Albany and pleaded for a new trial before the state supreme court.

Archbold became Rockefeller's proxy, picked successor, surrogate son, and court jester.

I thought justice ground real slow in Texas." "Only if you plead not guilty.

Major Sullivan is working on that. She wants everything dismissed. The fruits of a poisoned tree.

foreign legal systems. So I made

Mirror, Standard, Telegraph, Birmingham Post, Sketch, all careful to report accurately the events without editorial comment. Unlike some countries, the British press must be exceedingly careful not to try a man in the newspapers and magazines before he comes to court. In such cases when a newspaper becomes an accuser or prejudger, turning public sentiment, the paper can be named as a defendant to the action. It keeps journalism honest.

Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.

One of the jurors had a pencil that squeaked. This of course, Alice could not stand, and she went round the court and got behind him, and very soon found an opportunity of taking it away. She did it so quickly that the poor little juror (it was Bill, the Lizard) could not make out at all what had become of it; so, after hunting all about for it, he was obliged to write with one finger for the rest of the day; and this was of very little use, as it left no mark on the slate. 'Herald

The next witness was the Duchess's cook. She carried the pepper-box in her hand, and Alice guessed who it was, even before she got into the court, by the way the people near the door began sneezing all at once. 'Give your evidence,' said the King. 'Shan't,' said the cook. The King looked anxiously at the White Rabbit, who said in a low voice, 'Your Majesty must cross-examine THIS witness.' 'Well

Next time we see you, you'll be on trial for some ingenious crime!" Dottie said with a laugh. Evie grinned. "Just as long as they know my name.

The ghost accused the widow's new husband of having murdered her old one (himself), leaving Moschion in anguish about what to do. Obviously the rest of the play concerned Moschion's frustrated efforts to get the ghost into court as a witness.

COURTHOUSES WERE THEIR own special kind of madness.

Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters

Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks

Lord, give us righteous judges who will not try to legislate and dominate this society. Take control, Lord! We ask for additional vacancies on the court.

Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.

Concentration is born on the practice court... you must mentally treat your practice sessions as matches, concentrating on every ball you hit.

They should get another lawyer," he said. "Surely there are better people around. That man with the big nose—you know the one—they say that he's very good. The judges can't take their eyes off his nose, and so they always decide in his favour.

The day should come when all of the forms of life... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote and bear, the lemmings as well as the trout in the streams.

FDR's solicitor general said the Second Amendment had nothing to do with an individual right to own a gun; it had to do with the common defense. The court agreed, unanimously.2

It was the pit prosecutors, as attorneys in division were known, that handled most of Miami's 40,000+ felony arrests each year.

The law lied when it said he had declined the services of a lawyer.

an instrument and made a small indentation on each object. "This is my mark," he said to the FBI man. "I will be able to identify it in court." Bardwell

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