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Quotes About Legal

The opportunity to change my mind was legally mandated by the Synarche, of course. I couldn't cannot entirely to the clade until I turned twenty-five standard, and I had to do it, legally, while I wasn't under the influence of any turning or rightminding controlled by the clade.
~ Elizabeth Bear
are advised they are breaking the law.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
Since i was the only Black woman sitting in the defendant's chair, of course he identified me. We protested the procedure, but the judge admitted his testimony anyway. We finally did arrange for a lineup, and, of course, the other so-called witnesses picked out another woman.
~ Assata Shakur
The one thing we do know is that after his death, all the legal papers on my case came up missing. Evelyn talked to Phyllis, Stanley's widow, and she gave her every legal paper she could find that had something to do with my case, but the bulk of the material was still missing. Finally, Evelyn found out that the New York City police had my legal papers. "How did they get them?" i asked her. "I don't even want to think about it," she answered.
~ Assata Shakur
Jury selection continued with only the judge and the prosecutor participating.
~ Assata Shakur
Fine print and white lawyers have a way of robbing Black people of what is theirs.
~ Assata Shakur
All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law.
~ William Pepper
It's every lawyer's dream to help shape the law, not just react to it.
~ Alan Dershowitz
The settlers, as we know, are the only people in Israel who take the Left seriously. When you read the settlers' publications, you think that the leftists are everywhere: The leftists infiltrate the government, the leftists run the Defense Ministry, the leftists dominate the legal establishment, and the leftists control the media, of course.
~ Yair Lapid
Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.
~ Tom Hanks
I believe having judges with real world, frontline experience as a prosecutor is a good thing.
~ Amy Klobuchar
Americans have grown a great deal more realistic about lawyers and the law. I think that's all for the good. A lot of people will say to you these days, 'If you are looking for justice, don't go to a courtroom.' That's just a more realistic perspective on what happens in the legal process.
~ Scott Turow
The Karen Ann Quinlan case is where the right to life and the right to die got bound together, and I don't think they've ever gotten untangled.
~ Jill Lepore
The Governor's Office is going to get out of the litigation business.
~ Doug Ducey
Cameras in the courtroom is a great idea.
~ Jeffrey Toobin
Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.
~ Jello Biafra
When they discover I have a green card there may be some problems.
~ Bruce Greenwood
I'm a Canadian citizen, but I do have a green card.
~ Sami Zayn
I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.
~ F. Lee Bailey
I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.
~ Dinah Sheridan
It is ridiculous to say that Sacco and Vanzetti are being railroaded to the chair. The situation is much worse than that. This is a thing done cold-bloodedly and with deliberation. But care and deliberation do not guarantee justice.
~ Heywood Broun
Most people assume that when you go to court and win your case that you are guaranteed to get your money. Sadly, this isn't always the case.
~ Robert Rinder
We got to figure out or define what is a legal guarding position because there are times where he can move his hands out of the way, but it's hard to tell a guy what to do when somebody is running into you, you know what I mean? I don't know what a legal guarding position is at times.
~ Monty Williams
I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.
~ Matthew McConaughey