John Grisham Quotes

In evaluating any given claim of misconduct, we will be ill served in the long run if we abandon the presumption of innocence and fairness, tempting though it may be. We must always remember that it is when passions are most inflamed that fairness is most in jeopardy.

The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.

The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday.

The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.

No Man ought to be looked upon as guilty, before he has received his judicial Sentence; nor can the Laws deprive him of their Protection, before it is proved that he has forfeited all Right to it.

It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

In Malaysia, trials have always been fair.

To say that because of someone's heritage or their ethnicity that they are unable to provide fair judgement is just wrong. It's just not how the judicial system works in our country and not how it ever can work.

I believe that everybody is entitled to a presumption of innocence.

No man can be judge to his own cause.

No one should be judge in his own case.

Every man may think his own cause just till it be heard and judged.

The law is agnostic about truth.

This is the time that I really miss being in my courtroom because I believe that that's the last place in this country where there's supposed to be fairness.

I believe I am entitled like any other person to have the presumption of innocence.

Courts are supposed to be places of reason. But this, of course, is a fantasy. I mean, there is reason being used as a technique. But courts, in fact, are baths of emotions.

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

There's never going to be a system that is fair to everyone.

The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair trial. And that fair trial needs to have an impartial jury.

I never sympathise with the accused unless there's a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don't ever sympathise with the criminal.

Personality is lower than partiality.

A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena.

I'll leave it to others to try to determine whether or not that was unfair or not. I'm not the nominee.

Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean you're guilty of something.