Legal Defense Quotes

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by it. In my opinion, the important thing is to clear the innocent. - Hercule Poirot

I think on a national level your Department of Law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we've been charged with and automatically throw them out.

The American Army has supplied, assigned a very capable man to me, to help me, bring me to military justice. I don't think I need no civilians. All I want to do is clear myself with the American Army.

I stand for judgment: answer: shall I have it?

The first thing a good lawyer does is immediately presume the guilt of his client.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Ignorantia legis neminem excusat

The innocent man is always eager to give his explanation and does so at the first opportunity, and it is always to his interest so to do. But the guilty is now enabled by the law to remain mute, to learn the evidence against him, to concoct his defense pending trial, and to come into court fully acquainted with the case against him, while the district attorney only knows that the defendant has pronounced the two words "not guilty.

Wherever they have been arraigned, a plain charge has been exhibited against them. They have had an impartial trial and have been permitted to make their defense.

The defense to slander is the truth, and sometimes the truth hurts.

The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.

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

I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.

There are lawyers advising to sue, so the lawyers can keep their retainments.

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

I did not think we were as low as this! One member suggested that it should be reduced to ten, and oh my God, that it was hard for a man having a charge brought against him not to be able to plead the consent of a child like that.

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.'

The prime element of the value of property is the knowledge that its peaceful use will be defended by government.

I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years.

The job of the Attorney General is very specific. My roll, as the legal adviser, is to defend the constitutionality of the laws as they're passed.

As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system-the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges-would take care of that; they didn't need his help.

You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.

The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.

When an office-holder facing a multi-count indictment says that he has decided to spend more time with his family, the proper response is a horse-laugh. When an accused politician explains that a charge of corruption is 'really' an attack on his or her race, religion, ethnic background or gender, the odds that something felonious happened jumps.