John Barth Quotes

I am finally glad to see that the jury is looking at me.

I didn't attend any of the court proceedings.

I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court.

Courtroom dramas can be boring.

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.

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.

So I don't blame Boies for the decision of the Court at all.

The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.

I knew I was coming home, I thought they would consider acquittal, I was disappointed that they didn't.

I take it that the judgment is an essential point in every conviction, let the punishment be fixed or not.

I loved being a judge, and sometimes I miss the power of the gavel, but this is a lot more fun.

I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed.

A trial is not a search for truth. It is a contest and, often, one that produces no winners.

And, you know, like I said, I'm not looking forward to a trial.

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.

From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.

For every criminal case, the judge must construct a perfect syllogism: the major premise must be the general law; the minor premise, whether or not the action in question is in compliance with the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punishment.

There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court.

A trial deals with only a limited amount of information, considering only the evidence which is available and also admissible and which relates directly to the charges on the indictment.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

I was raised in Austin, Texas, around trial lawyers. My friend and I - we were 14 - would go and watch her father try cases. I also heard of lot of Baptist preachers in little churches saying crazy things with such conviction.

At some point the law must prevail and the lawyers must go home.

In the ultimate analysis, only the jury can strip a man of his liberty or his life.

A trial is a powerful vehicle to explain things. It is the most time that anybody spends really thinking about one thing. Unless you are the analyst on the National Security staff that's assigned to monitor Putin, and that's all you do, day in and day out, very few people ever spend the time on a single subject that is spent during trial.