Connie Willis Quotes

One of the main things I know about O.J. Simpson is that he is a compulsive talker. So if I were to ask him one question, I would get 45 minutes on the history of the case. It would be irrelevant what I would ask him - he would just start talking.

Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career.

I think the prosecution had all the evidence in front of them to have won the case.

The question in the Simpson case has never been whether he is guilty or not guilty but, given the facts and circumstances of this case, whether it is possible for him to be innocent. And the answer to that question has always been an unequivocal no.

The O. J. Simpson trial was the launching-off point for a lot of our pop culture and news culture habits and touchstones.

I truly believe in O.J.'s innocence, and unless they find him guilty, I will continue to support him.

I was a cub reporter on a local newspaper in Limerick city, and I used to cover the district court meetings. All of life passed through the Limerick courthouse. Misery, malevolence, the dark side of humanity... I tell ya, it made 'Angela's Ashes' look like 'The Wonderful World of Disney.'

My first day as an intern in the books department at 'Cosmopolitan' also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced.

Professionalism in law has brought us the O.J. Simpson case in lieu of justice.

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

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

Petty juries, consisting usually of twelve men, attend courts to try matters of fact in civil causes, and to decide both the law and the fact in criminal prosecutions. The decision of a petty jury is called a verdict.

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.'

As I listened to the verdicts in the Casey Anthony case, acquitting her of the homicide of her baby girl, I relived what I felt back when court clerk Deirdre Robertson read the verdicts in the Simpson case. But this case is different. The verdict is far more shocking. Why? Because Casey Anthony was no celebrity.

I want nothing to do with O.J. Simpson. I want that name so far behind me, I want it out of my life.

The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.

O. J. Simpson has already received the ultimate punishment: For the rest of his life he has to associate with golfers.

The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial.

I listened to 19 guilty verdicts for my wife and me. And all I could do was sob.

A lot of the evidence and some of the events you see in LA Justice are loosely based on real-life cases.

The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty.

A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.

Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.

Next time we see you, you’ll be on trial for some ingenious crime!” Dottie said with a laugh. Evie grinned. “Just as long as they know my name.