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To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him. -- Potter Stewart
Ask any experienced defense lawyer: the real risks are for an accused person who is innocent. A guilty defendant has many more options available. -- Andrew Vachss
A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena. -- Tom C. Clark
The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy. -- Jim Garrison
The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth. -- Alan Dershowitz
Why should the court impose a judgment in a case in which the SEC alleges a serious securities fraud, but the defendant neither admits nor denies wrongdoing? -- Jed S. Rakoff
The higher someone's profile, the easier it is for a defendant to trade him up to the feds. Mr. Big is always a better catch than Mr. Small. -- Howie Carr
Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather. -- Floyd Abrams
I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases. -- Joseph Wambaugh
I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial. -- Constance Baker Motley
To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law. -- Byron White
If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If you're the defense attorney, you care deeply about intermediate truth, but you tend to neglect ultimate truth. -- Alan Dershowitz
When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society. -- Michael Bloomberg
Every defendant knows, if endowed with the mental competence for criminal responsibility, that the life he will take by his homicidal behavior is that of a unique person, like himself, and that the person to be killed probably has close associates, 'survivors,' who will suffer harms and deprivations from the victim's death. -- David Souter
It is an established principle of jurisprudence in all civilized nations that the sovereign cannot be sued in its own courts, or in any other, without its consent and permission; but it may, if it thinks proper, waive this privilege, and permit itself to be made a defendant in a suit by individuals, or by another State. -- Roger B. Taney
As one who was a prosecutor for many years, I can tell you that having a tape recording of interrogations would help everybody. It would make clear if there had been improper pressure exerted on a defendant or witness, and it would also protect the interrogating officer from false claims that such pressure had been brought to bear. -- Eliot Spitzer
If rhyme is a crime, my mic is my co-defendant. -- Cormega
The plaintiff cannot dive into the secret recesses of his (the defendant's) heart. -- Frederick Romilly
Nearly every lawsuit is an insult to the intelligence of both plaintiff and defendant. -- E. W. Howe
A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I furnished the body that was needed to sit in the defendant's chair.[Explaining his role in the Scopes Monkey Trial.] -- John T. Scopes
The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance. -- Philip Guston
I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant. -- Mark Twain
We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial evidence. -- Alfred Wegener
her heart was the defendant,in the court waiting for the last decision and the judge was th mind.is it the end of love -- Souhila Hamdi
A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena -- Tom C. Clark
The prosecution makes all the important decisions: what's charged, how much is charged, whether you can get a decent offer. Every defendant becomes an informant today. -- Lynne Stewart
It's perfectly understandable and proper for one to be anti-Semite, but to exterminate women and children is so extraordinary, it's hard to believe. No defendant here wanted that. -- Julius Streicher
A jury is more apt to be unbiased and independent than a court, but they very seldom stand up against strong public clamor. Judges naturally believe the defendant is guilty. -- Clarence Darrow

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