Guilty Verdict Quotes

I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person be convicted.'

Part of my platform is, of course, the guilty must be punished and that we no longer let our children see their guilty leaders getting away with murder. Because it teaches children, you know, that they don’t have to have any morals as long as they have guns and are bullies and I don’t think that's a good message. . . . I do say that I am in favor of the return of the guillotine and that is for the worst of the worst of the guilty.

Indictments don't mean anything; men are entitled to be innocent until they are proved guilty.

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

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.

I listened to 19 guilty verdicts for my wife and me. And all I could do was sob.

The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.

In the real world, some defense lawyers never have an innocent client in their whole career.

Practically, every defense lawyer knows that the jury desperately wants to hear from the defendant and that the only reason not to put him on the stand is that he is soooo guilty that every answer he gives after his name will eradicate any shred of reasonable doubt.

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

I am not saying Rubin Carter was guilty. I am saying he was very likely guilty.

There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.

I truly believe in O.J.'s innocence, and unless they find him guilty, I will continue to support him.

I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.

I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?

By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.

You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty. Time will pass and seasons will come and go. Spring with its waving green grass and heaps of sweet-smelling flowers on every hill and in every dale. Then sultry Summer, with her shimmering heat-waves on the baked horizon. And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growing brown and golden under a sinking sun. And finally Winter, with its biting, whining wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow. But you won't be here to see any of 'em; not by a damn sight, because it's the order of this court that you be took to the nearest tree and hanged by the neck till you're dead, dead, dead, you olive-colored son of a billy goat.

I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.

I don't really want to have any part of getting guilty people off.

I'm absolutely confident that everybody that's been put to death is two things: One, they're guilty of the crime charged, and, secondly, they had full access to our courts, both state and federal.

Till a person is proven guilty, no one should attack him or her.

We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law.

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.

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.