Legal Evidence Quotes

Decisions on a matter as serious as charging an individual with a crime cannot be decided on anything less than complete examination of all available evidence. Anything less is not justice.

Circumstantial evidence is evidence.

You are innocent until proven guilty. And if folks have come forward, whether it is judge Roy Moore or whether it is anyone else, and they have evidence to convict someone of a crime, then they should go through the legal process and do so.

Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the system, giving defendants access to DNA testing and evidence whenever it might be relevant.

No one is ever convicted or cleared just on a polygraph test.

I have more information than anybody's ever had about this case. I have 7,000 letters from Aileen Wuornos and all the letters between her and her girlfriend.

People in general have no notion of the sort and amount of evidence often needed to prove the simplest matter of fact.

There is a presumption of innocence in American law that means that you cannot consider making someone guilty until all the evidence is in the the procedures are completed.

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

No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science.

In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence.

A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.

One problem was that my direct testimony was in writing, so a lot of people didn't get to see it. I hope they see it, because I think it built a very strong case.

Never talk when you can nod and never nod when you can wink and never write an e-mail, because it's death. You're giving prosecutors all the evidence we need.

I think either Robert Blake wither pulled the trigger or hired someone to do it, but it will be a tough case to prove. I think there's a very good chance he may take the stand, and that's what I'm waiting for.

The prosecution... wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.

A criminal should be exonerated if it is proven to the court that the blood of the victim was permitted.

There is simply no plausible construction of the known evidence that leaves out Novak either providing a proffer through his lawyer of what he would say if he testified or having testified directly.

Laymen ought not to be accused save by dependable and lawful accusers and witnesses.

You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like 'shooting an unarmed child,' when that 'child' was beating him bloody.

If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me.

Courts of law require evidence to go to trial - not opinions from bureaucrats.

[A photograph] is a part of the evidence. I'm not saying it's the truth - it's part of the evidence.

A lot of the evidence and some of the events you see in LA Justice are loosely based on real-life cases.

You don’t have enough evidence to convict them in a court of law. On the other hand, they can kill you….It’s inherently a very difficult problem. At the end of the day the United States must be true to its own values.