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Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge. -- Horace
I knew I was coming home, I thought they would consider acquittal, I was disappointed that they didn't. -- Louise Woodward
Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal. -- F. Lee Bailey
I made no pretense of doing balanced reporting about murder. I was appalled by defense attorneys who would do anything to win an acquittal for a guilty person. -- Dominick Dunne
Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution. -- Barbara Amiel
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. -- Cesare Beccaria
I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state. -- Jim Garrison
Self-condemnation is God's absolution; and pleading guilty, acquittal at his bar. -- C. A. Bartol
Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for. -- Mason Cooley
Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause. -- Samuel Richardson
In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win. -- F. Lee Bailey
The breath Of accusation kills an innocent name, And leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, Which is a mask without it. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal! -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
In Russia, less than one percent of trials end with an acquittal. With trials that were initiated for political reasons those chances are zero. -- Lyudmila Alexeyeva
Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent. -- Oscar Wilde

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