Advocacy is in the courtroom—not out in the streets.
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Court TV. I can't stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I'm not reading a book or spending time with my husband, my friends or my dog, I am watching Court TV.
I think the prosecution had all the evidence in front of them to have won the case.
I've served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way.
I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.
I had only one idea before me throughout the trial, i.e. to show complete indifference towards the trial in spite of serious nature of the charges against us.
In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
I went to the actual SVU precinct... and got a really good sense of what it was like.
Obviously I'm a lawyer; I like to have cases.
I realise I'm known for doing big, very serious cases, but fundamentally, any lawyer will tell you that even the most complex trials come down to the same questions. Are people telling porky pies? Are bank accounts dodgy? Is someone trying to get one over on you? It's my job to listen and then decide.
Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
I really believe that a lawyer - no matter how good - if he or she is really worth their weight in salt, they will lose some cases because, after all, it is not really one of those secretive things that not everything is decided by who your lawyer is.
The most important element of the foster care system is getting kids out of foster care and into a permanent placement so they don't have to spend their entire childhoods in courtrooms, wondering if they will ever have a place to call home.
The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
One of the local reporters assured me Garrison would put in an appearance for the cross-examination, but as the courtroom settled down and the rear doors were closed, there was no sign of him.
You always make somebody mad when you decide a lawsuit.
Believe me, although I really like the show, the reality of Philly Homicide is nothing like CBS's 'Cold Case.'
All in all I'd rather have been a judge than a miner. And what's more, being a miner, as soon as you are too old and tired and sick and stupid to do the job properly, you have to go. Well, the very opposite applies with judges. *
So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor.
Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?
See the judge upon the bench who tries the case as best he can, see the wise and wicked ones who feed upon life's sacred fire, see the soldier with his gun who must be dead to be admired.
