Jim Barksdale Quotes

There is simply no plausible construction of the known evidence that leaves out Novak either providing a proffer through his lawyer of what he would say if he testified or having testified directly.

Well, you know, one lawyer says I'm the only witness and I'm not credible. Another lawyer says this witness - there's tons of evidence that's been available for years.

Documents create a paper reality we call proof.

I didn't attend any of the court proceedings.

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

There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court.

A trial deals with only a limited amount of information, considering only the evidence which is available and also admissible and which relates directly to the charges on the indictment.

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

Any perjury case is a tough case. You just don't go on 'he said-she said.' You have to find corroborating evidence.

I answered their questions truthfully and honestly, but I would prefer not to say more. I assume the information was routed back and that is why I was not called to testify.

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

Courtroom dramas can be boring.

There are two other SLA members who have been granted immunity and then also, one of the SLA members had confessed to two other people, and those people, I'm sure, will be called as witnesses, as they were at the grand jury.

I believe I am strengthening the Constitution with my case.

Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.

Testimony gives something to be interpreted.

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.

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

And here in Los Angeles, once again, I'm going to go down and be a witness. There's a guilty plea. I don't mind being on the witness stand, but I think they mind it a lot.

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

I think either Robert Blake wither pulled the trigger or hired someone to do it, but it will be a tough case to prove. I think there's a very good chance he may take the stand, and that's what I'm waiting for.

I have fully cooperated with the investigation and before the grand jury, and I'm quite confident at the end of the day that we'll know what facts are in this particular case.

I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.

All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.

In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house.