Trial Outcome Quotes

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

The same case not to be tried twice. There shall be no second action under this law against a person who is condemned or is acquitted in accordance with this law.

Before we condemn the jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman, we should remember that they were asked to do something extraordinary. They were asked to listen to the facts and apply the law to the best of their ability in a case the world was watching.

This is a very big victory for Michael and we are all very proud that he has been completely and totally vindicated in court, as we were certain he would be.

The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.

Describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial: These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.

Earlier today, the jury at the Martha Stewart trial reached a verdict. Martha was found guilty on all charges. In a related story, there's a huge sale at K-Mart.

One of the risks of a public trial is a public verdict.

Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.

A fair trial would have been no trial at all.

It's true I didn't get a fair trial, but the problem is people don't understand the details. It is important to understand the details of the trial and why I'm not guilty under the charges that were brought against me.

TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were: "Sir Thomas Holt hath taken a cleaver and stricken his cook upon the head, so that one side of the head fell upon one shoulder and the other side upon the other shoulder." The defendant was acquitted by instruction of the court, the learned judges holding that the words did not charge murder, for they did not affirm the death of the cook, that being only an inference.

I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.

Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial.

The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction.

In Los Angeles, the jury in the Reginald Denny Beating trial, after much thinking, concludes, that Person A is not necessarily trying to kill Person B just because Person A happens to very deliberately bash Person B's skull in with a brick. The verdict is applauded by scientists at the Tobacco Institute.

I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn't. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty. A jury said he wasn't. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

You're certain to get a decision in a trial.

People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

The jury has … the power to bring in a verdict in the teeth of both law and facts.

No government intent on persecuting its critics will want to leave the outcome of a trial to chance.

It's a pity that Milosevic did not live through the trial and get his deserved sentence.