Quotes About Justice

A trial deals with only a limited amount of information, considering only the evidence which is available and also admissible and which relates directly to the charges on the indictment.

When people say, 'Why don't you face the music?' I say, 'You have to understand the music is not an open court and a fair trial.'

No government intent on persecuting its critics will want to leave the outcome of a trial to chance.

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.

Before being a mom, I remember going on a Twitter rant during the whole George Zimmerman trial in Florida about my younger brothers and how one day I'll be the mom of a black son.

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.

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.

I think the O.J. Simpson trial was a revelation about the ongoing patterns of racial difference in American society.

What we acknowledged as a nation during the one-and-a-half year trial of George Zimmerman is that the white majority's public imagination of black people was based on their fear of us, not the reality of who we are.

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.

It is a travesty that I have to stand trial because I spoke about fewer Moroccans.

Unless you go to trial, you don't know what the truth is.

We are not living up to Thomas Jefferson's idea of what a trial by jury means.

Your job as a trial attorney is to try to convey to the jury the essence of the people you represent.

The Human Rights Act is not a terrorists' charter. It enables ordinary citizens to seek redress when the government breaches fundamental freedoms enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights such as the right to a fair trial, the right to life and free expression.

Tort reform is important. We need to prevent trial lawyers from killing good jobs.

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.

Let's get this straight now: a Senate impeachment trial is not a court of law. It's a court of politics.

Courts of law require evidence to go to trial - not opinions from bureaucrats.

When you think about it, a trial is not really about what the truth is, it's about which barrister is better at persuading those 12 people to believe their story.

I'm an old trial lawyer.

As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

Any good trial lawyer knows that if you've got one credible expert or scientific study, then you can let the jury decide.

In Malaysia, trials have always been fair.