Legal Outcome Quotes

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.

If a law doesn’t produce a just result, then what good is it? …. If you don’t have a just result, then the law doesn’t matter.

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

I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.

I have this fringe theory that I've sort of stress-tested a little bit - the more polarising and popular a case is, the more likely an acquittal.

It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.

When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty. And it doesn't matter if it's a murder case, it doesn't matter what case it is, when they're found not guilty, they're not guilty.

I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.

There's no certainty in the law.

My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate.

When justice is done for symbolic reasons, then all of us are in trouble…. Symbolic justice is not what a verdict should be about.

When you get arrested it's in big letters. When you get acquitted it's in small letters.

All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.

Most lawyers who win a case advise their clients, "We have won," and when justice has frowned upon their cause ... "You have lost.

Law is the prophecy of what a court will do.

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

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

You never know when you lose a case whether it was because the facts were against you, or because the judges had already made up their minds, or if you could have done something differently.

That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.

I’m praying for a misdemeanor

If the courts are making the decisions, it matters who the judge is and, of course, people are concerned with what is the bottom line.

I don't really believe in moral victories. You can have them when you're dealing with public opinion, but in litigation, you want to win the case. I want to win.

It is very important to know the law, but it is more important to know the judge

At the end, I have to take the court I get scheduled on.