Criminal Trial Quotes

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.

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

After the verdict was read in the Simpson case, as the jury was leaving, one of them, I was later told, said, 'We think he probably did it. We just didn't think they proved it beyond a reasonable doubt.'

I think that you are a war criminal, and I am going to do everything in my power to see that you will be tried as one.

I listened to 19 guilty verdicts for my wife and me. And all I could do was sob.

Few dramas in American political history remain more riveting than that of Nixon's exit and Mr. Ford's reaction, at first halting and then decisive, to the looming possibility of a former president on criminal trial for months on end.

Each time I told them I didn't kill my wife.

My involvement in the Simpson criminal trial was a personal matter and did not involve Movie Tunes, its distributors or exhibitors.

[The defendant] has an absolute, unqualified right to compel the State to investigate its own case, find its own witnesses, prove its own facts, and convince the jury through its own resources. Throughout the process, the defendant has a fundamental right to remain silent, in effect challenging the State at every point to “Prove it!”

Practically, every defense lawyer knows that the jury desperately wants to hear from the defendant and that the only reason not to put him on the stand is that he is soooo guilty that every answer he gives after his name will eradicate any shred of reasonable doubt.

You are not guilty of anything until you are charged and tried.

W. Bush, this man is a war criminal, and we will see that he is brought to trial.

The exclusion of jurors opposed to the death penalty allows the state a special advantage in those prosecutions where the charges are most serious and the possible punishment the most severe.

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

I truly believe in O.J.'s innocence, and unless they find him guilty, I will continue to support him.

Professionalism in law has brought us the O.J. Simpson case in lieu of justice.

But I can tell that once, and if, and when this issue gets to be, under real terms, investigated, you will be seeing certain people that we know from this country standing trial; and they will be prosecuted criminally.

Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.

Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

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

I don't know what it's like to get to face down my attacker in court, but I do know that they lie.

In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

I think probably, you know, from my perspective, the folks who say a sitting president cannot be indicted have the better of the argument that the president can't be indicted - put, you know, through a criminal trial while he is president - and that the proper way to do it is to impeach him first, remove him, and then seek criminal prosecution.

War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.