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.
Quotes about defendant (16 Quotes)
The plaintiff and defendant in an action at law, are like two men ducking their heads in a bucket, and daring each other to remain longest under water.
It can only hurt the defendant. Even if it's something that's not done with bad intent, it looks bad. Lay either didn't get that advice, or he got it and he ignored it.
TRIAL, n. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. In order to effect this purpose it is necessary to supply a contrast in the person of one who is called the defendant...
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.
The defendant was so worried that my case would spark a flood of similar claims that I never stood a chance. They drowned me in paper and argument. I've been told over and over again that it was exactly what asbestos sufferers went through for 20 years, trying to get their stories heard.
To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.
Whether this act (lying to agents) fits the federal death penalty law may have been a tougher question without his testimony. Whether his acts a month or months ahead of time directly caused these deaths is a good question. The fact that the defendant himself says they were directly connected doesn't necessarily prove it, but it was enough for the jury.
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.
He told her the defendant needs attention from a mental health professional. He said she needs to take her medication.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The defendant, Frank Melton, repeatedly lied in his answer to the complaint, his responses to interrogatories and his responses for admissions. He did so personally, by and through his attorneys on several occasions,