Kato Kaelin Quotes

Indictments don't mean anything; men are entitled to be innocent until they are proved guilty.

I believe in my heart Simpson is guilty.

Criminal cases require strategy, and prosecutors should attempt to prove only what can be proved.

A criminal should be exonerated if it is proven to the court that the blood of the victim was permitted.

Indictments of any kind are serious. That being said, let's not forget that an indictment is not a conviction. We still have due process in this country.

We have to be careful about applying criminal labels to people until we're very sure.

The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.

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

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

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

The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.

If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If you're the defense attorney, you care deeply about intermediate truth, but you tend to neglect ultimate truth.

I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.

If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.

In the ultimate analysis, only the jury can strip a man of his liberty or his life.

I had only one idea before me throughout the trial, i.e. to show complete indifference towards the trial in spite of serious nature of the charges against us.

After the verdict was read in the Simpson case, as the jury was leaving, one of them, I was later told, said, 'We think he probably did it. We just didn't think they proved it beyond a reasonable doubt.'

Ask any lawyer - if a prosecutor thinks he can win a case, he'll prosecute it.

My mother negotiated a plea deal, and my father went to trial. I think one thing we notice in their case that kind of stands out is how, in some ways, arbitrary the outcomes in the criminal justice system can be. And they did basically the same thing, identical thing.

An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.

An indictment is not a conviction.

Mr. Justice, there are unanswerable questions in this case.

Let law enforcement determine guilt or innocence.

Laymen ought not to be accused save by dependable and lawful accusers and witnesses.