Courtroom Quotes - Page 3

• Dimitri. I hadn't known he was here. His eyes were on me too,dark and endless. Only I couldn't read what he was feeling. His face betrayed nothing, but there was something in his eyes...something intense and intimidating. The image of him ready to take down that group of guardians flashed through my mind,and something told me that if I asked,He would fight his way to me through this courtroom and do everything in his power to rescue me from it.

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Fighting, Dark

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• Courtroom : A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas.

  H. L. Mencken

  Jesus, Odds, America

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• Boy, you'll have a fair trial. Race, creed or color, justice will be done in my courtroom.

  Laurence Stallings

  Boys, Equality, Race

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• The flagrant disregard in the courtroom of elementary standards of proper conduct should not and cannot be tolerated.

  Hugo Black

  Should, Disregard, Standards

  Illinois v. Allen, 397 U.S. 337, 343, 1970.

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• At best-which is to say, even where our knowledge of a case comes to us only through courtroom evidence-it is difficult for the legal process to keep us at a sanitizing distance from crimes of passion.

  Diana Trilling

  Distance, Passion, Justice

  Diana Trilling (1981). “Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor”, Harcourt

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• I met with a bad bout after the trial was over, and while the trial was on I habit of stopping by the liquor store and buying a bottle of wine every night. Just to forget the days courtroom proceedings. Then the next morning I'd get up, go to court again and do it all over again. Well, by 1985, I was a fall down, low bottom drunk. An alcoholic. And in 1989, I finally got sober. And I found the rooms of a 12 Step Recovery Program. And I diligently worked those 12 Steps, and I have changed my life dramatically. I'm happily married. I converted to Christianity.

  Harry Reems

  Morning, Fall, Wine

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The only way those Ten Commandments and prayer would be stripped from that Courtroom is with the force of arms.

  Fob James

  Prayer, Scary, Would Be

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• Somewhere "out there," beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door.

  William Rehnquist

  Running, Wall, Doors

  Address at Suffolk University Law School; quoted in "The New York Times", April 17, 1986.

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• Our culture's tolerance wears thin when religion intrudes on the public discourse... Our schools, courtrooms, and libraries set the tone for the entire society. The message they currently communicate is harsh and unambiguous: religion is offensive and should be kept out of public view.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, School

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• If Mike Tyson is in your courtroom and you don't send him to jail, it's an injustice. Everyone knows he's a bad guy. So if he is in your courtroom, he should go to jail.

  Mike Tyson

  Jail, Guy, Injustice

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• I'm a big believer in first impressions," he finally said. "Tell me what your first thought was when Jason walked into the courtroom." Taylor took a sip of her drink and grinned. This one was easy. "I vowed to hate him forever." Jeremy's brown eyes twinkled at this. "That's exactly what I said nineteen years ago, five minutes after he first walked into our dorm room.

  Julie James

  Hate, Eye, Years

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• The world is not a courtroom There is no judge no jury no plaintiff. This is a caravan filled with eccentric beings telling wondrous stories about God.

  Saadi

  Judging, Stories, World

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• For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. "Blessed are the merciful" in a courtroom? "Blessed are the peacemakers" in the Pentagon? Give me a break!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Christian, Jesus, Blessed

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• Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever changing guises.

  Eugenie Scott

  Religious, School, Ideas

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• The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in some large and vague sense, its moving parts, its smaller chambers--its classrooms, its workplaces, its corporate boardrooms, its jails, its military barracks--are flagrantly undemocratic, dominated by one commanding person or a tiny elite of power.

  Howard Zinn

  Military, Moving, Jail

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.151, Beacon Press

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• With Keith's [my fiance] murder, I was changed. I thought I would be a prosecutor forever, but there were so many days when I would leave the courtroom during a trial, and go down the hall to the ladies' room, and go into a little stall, and cry.

  Nancy Grace

  Forever, Trials, Keith

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Hailey [as a character] was born when I left the courtroom and moved to New York for Cochran and Grace, my TV show with Johnnie Cochran. I moved with two boxes of clothes, a curling iron, and $300; I didn't know a soul in the city, so I would come home at night and I'd be all alone and just write. I missed the courtroom and [what led me to the courtroom] so much I wrote about it. After my fiancé Keith's murder, I had never thought I would have children - I thought that it was not God's plan for me to have a family.

  Nancy Grace

  New York, Children, Character

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I don't want to live in a country that lies can prevail in court. Where you can walk into a courtroom and fabricate a story and then have appellate court judges uphold it after a jury has made a decision.

  Jesse Ventura

  Country, Lying, Court Judges

  "Former governor Jesse Ventura talks about new books ‘Marijuana Manifesto’ and ‘Shit Politicians Say,’ plus much more". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• I have spent my entire life working to make my community and my country better. And I can't wait to get inside the courtroom to tell my story.

  Corrine Brown

  Country, Community, Waiting

  Source: www.actionnewsjax.com

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• I don't know that I could do a procedural legal drama and spend all my time in a courtroom talking legal jargon that I don't necessarily understand.

  Lucas Till

  Drama, Talking, Jargon

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• I had never been in a New York courtroom. I think I went on a field trip when I was nine in New Jersey, but I never actually set foot as an adult and it was terrifying. It's very sterile, somehow. It seems so grand in the movies and it's so sterile when you're actually there.

  Nina Arianda

  Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.

  Harry Browne

  Judging, Trials, Assumption

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• And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself.

  Scott Bakula

  Trials, Lawyer, Grew

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• There was a courtroom scene where my son is convicted of killing Kevin Spacey's character. I find the bloody T-shirt and realize my husband did it. I get up the courage to take the shirt and send it to the police as evidence. I go out of the house for the first time. There was all this stuff I had to do that became quite truncated, because they slimmed down the movie. I understand the American Beauty is brilliant without all that stuff, but for me, personally, it was hard to see all that go.

  Allison Janney

  Husband, Character, Son

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• By definition, half the people leaving the courtroom are unhappy. Any good judge can make more than half the people unhappy. The job is not to make people like you or make people think you're their friend.

  Steven Pacey

  Jobs, Thinking, Judging

  Source: www.paxtonrecord.net

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