Libba Bray Quotes

I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot no deputy.

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

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

A man in Thailand was arrested with more than 10,000 pairs of stolen underwear. Legal experts are expecting a brief trial.

I have never seen a major trial which lacked significant perjury, and I have yet to see that perjury punished.

In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.

I believe in my heart Simpson is guilty.

In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.

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

But I can tell that once, and if, and when this issue gets to be, under real terms, investigated, you will be seeing certain people that we know from this country standing trial; and they will be prosecuted criminally.

I'm thrilled to have a completely new audience that I can get from Court TV, without it being my own trial. That was the only other way I would have gotten it.

Every crime, even the most atrocious, may be justified.

I've led a grand jury.

I know what it means to prosecute people.

Martha Stewart is being prosecuted not for who she is but what she did.

The role of the federal prosecutor and the purpose of a criminal investigation are well-defined.

A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.

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.

Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime.

Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?

The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.

I've been in crime for a long time and I know that the actual move isn't the actual crime: the crime continues [afterwards].

I got interested in the justice system. If I was, I'd probably be a defense lawyer. I was headed that way, but luckily changed my track to film school.

I wanted to be a prosecutor - a criminal lawyer - because there's nowhere where the stakes are higher, where you can wake up every day and believe in what you're doing.