Judicial Process Quotes

Advocacy is in the courtroom—not out in the streets.

The wheels of justice sometimes turn slowly, but happily they turn.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

Why is it that we go to immense lengths getting the Serbs who were responsible for the massacre of 7,000 at Srbrenica-that's slightly more than the total figure for New York 9/11-and we take them to a tribunal in The Hague, and one after another, we arraign them, try them, convict them, and punish them in front of the world, but no plans have been brought forward to get Osama bin Laden and his friends and put them on trial.

Juries are not qualified to judge questions of law, but they are very capable of judging questions of fact.

Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.

Nobody likes going to court.

A Supreme Court justice must convince at least four colleagues to bind the federal government nationwide, whereas a district court judge issuing a nationwide injunction needn't convince anyone.

The courtroom oath—to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth—is applicable only to witnesses... because the American justice system is built on a foundation of not telling the whole entire truth.

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.

Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

The hearings are just like a snake about to devour people.

When it comes to those who are accused and their right to defend themselves, it is perfectly reasonable to expect relevant evidence to be made public, and I am in favour of open justice.

When you file an amicus brief, and you represent a state, the court reads your brief. It is a powerful position to make the legal assault from.

The question is yet before the court.

We're lawyers. We present the arguments, and the court sorts out the merits.

He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.

You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts.

We haven't seen a situation where you have the FBI director talk about an investigation side by side with the attorney general who confirms, yes, I accept the recommendation of the FBI director.

Americans have grown a great deal more realistic about lawyers and the law. I think that's all for the good. A lot of people will say to you these days, 'If you are looking for justice, don't go to a courtroom.' That's just a more realistic perspective on what happens in the legal process.

No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud.

I don't know why his lawyers didn't tell him, 'You don't have to answer any questions about your private life, Mr. President. Let them sue you. Take the heat. You don't have to answer.'

Justice is the well water of the city of Novgorod, black and sweet.