Trial Quotes

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.

I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally, but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.

Well, I think they're all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it's the young man or girl who goes through a trial or ordeal and hits a very low ebb but manages to get guidance from a Merlin type figure.

I am co-counsel and as co-counsel I have the right to represent myself, speak for myself and conduct myself and my trial by myself in my best interests in order of due process.

Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.

Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.

Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.

I'm trying figuring out how to be the best person I can be. But it's been a process of trial and error.

I don't want to be Kato, the trial guy. It's like everything I do is under a microscope.

I had no money nor friends to prepare for the trial till last night.

A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.

I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too.

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

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 have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!

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 end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.

There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.

The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday.

Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women.

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.

Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.