Marilyn vos Savant Quotes

All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.

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.

I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.

We've been following Judge Alito's career over the last 15 years, while he's been on the Court of Appeals.

I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.

So I don't blame Boies for the decision of the Court at all.

I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk.

If you're dealing with criminals, they're not going to want to go to court.

The purpose of bail is to insure the defendant's appearance and submission to the judgment of the court. It is never denied for the purpose of punishment.

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.

Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.

Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the sentence or judgment of his peers, is only carrying that sentence or judgment into execution.

Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out.

Wherever they have been arraigned, a plain charge has been exhibited against them. They have had an impartial trial and have been permitted to make their defense.

In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he's accused from a document issued by the public attorney.

CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.

Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security.

Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions.

You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.

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.

I was covering the Supreme Court when it decided Gideon v. Wainright, and the case has always had special meaning for me.

I’m not sure that I was well prepared for the Supreme Court when I came here.

It would be proper to make the adjudications of the State Judges, appealable to the national Judicial.

When the Supreme Court renders an important decision, the reasons it gives are often more important than the choice it has made.

And let the sheriffs who have arrested them bring them before the justice without any other summons.