Quotes About Legal

We've got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Let's create a new legal system, so they'll have their day in court.

I desire to put off my trial as long as I can till I can get my evidence ready.

Courts are too distant from the communities they put on trial.

A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena.

There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

Our first concern is the security of the lawyers because without security you can't possibly have a fair trial, if trial at all, and that's not been adequately attended to.

The whole trial seemed surreal.

And, you know, like I said, I'm not looking forward to a trial.

No one can just file a charge and go directly to a jury trial. That just cannot happen.

Both sides should demand a speedy trial.

I don't think the trial practice is dead. But it is very ill. There are some days you could throw a hand grenade down the hall of the Harris County Courthouse and not hit anybody.

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.

Most people don't go back to trial work after being in management, but I couldn't do anything else.

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.

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.

Trial lawyers can sue people in the state of Missouri, and because of how broken the system is, if they win just one dollar for their client, they still get paid huge legal fees. For too long in this state, trial lawyers have picked our people's pockets.

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

Being a trial lawyer sounds like glamorous work, but most of your time is spent pushing paper and arguing.

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.

I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

I hope people think about the way trials go today, with the justice system overwhelmed by cases.

I think trials are inherently dramatic and interesting and are always going to be part of the news.