courtroom QUOTES

1 " In all human endeavors that deal with what is unthinkable, too terrible to be dealt with squarely, we turn to what is familiar and regimented: funerals, wakes, and even wars. Now, in this trial, we had gone beyond our empathy with the pain of the victims and our niggling realization that the defendant was a fragmented personality. He knew the rules, he even knew a great deal about the law, but he did not seem to be cognizant of what was about to happen to him. He seemed to consider himself irrefragable. And what was about to happen to him was vital for the good of society. I could not refute that. It had to be, but it seemed hollow that none of us understood that his ego, our egos and the rituals of the courtroom itself, the jokes and the nervous laughter were veiling the gut reactions that we should all be facing. We were all on “this railroad train running … "

― Ann Rule , The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story

2 " Again, no disrespect intended, but she looked to me like a divorce that hadn't found a courtroom yet. "

― James Anderson , The Never-Open Desert Diner (Ben Jones, #1)

3 " When her husband recovered, it was to shout abusively at her…. Later, when she reflected on it throughout the tedious courtroom proceedings, she realized this was the moment she had irrevocably determined to divorce her husband. "

― Jean Elson , Gross Misbehavior and Wickedness: A Notorious Divorce in Early Twentieth-Century America

4 " This is George, my beloved George. D'you think I want to go to my grave knowing that at the moment of his trial he looked around and saw no one lift a finger for him? If it is the death of me, I shall go to him." " Go then," he said. " Kiss our baby good-bye before you go, and Henry. I shall tell Catherine that you left your blessing for her. And kiss me farewell. For if you go into that courtroom you will never come out alive. "

5 " 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 , You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

6 " The nature of your outcome or problem in large part depends upon you. The side of the road is not the time, nor is it the place to try to prove to a law enforcement officer whether you are right or wrong. That is what the courtroom is for.
This is an excellent example of what can happen when we remove the biases that affect the choices we make whenever these interactions take place. The objective for each individual when you are pulled over by an officer of the law is to - Survive the Stop! "

― Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

7 " In the inner courtroom of my mind, mine is the only judgment that counts. "

― Nathaniel Branden , Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

8 " There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire. "

― Harper Lee , To Kill a Mockingbird

9 " The rules of war for federal court were contained in the 86 rules of federal civil procedure, the rules of the local federal court, and the courtroom rules of the particular federal judge. "

― Kenneth Eade , Predatory Kill (Brent Marks Legal Thriller Series #2)

10 " Ms Finney shared an office on the third floor with several other court reporters. Their software system was called Veritas. Theo had hacked into it before when he had been curious about something that happened in court. It was not a secure system because the information was available in open court. Anyone could walk into the courtroom and watch the trial. Anyone, of course, who was not confined by the rigors of middle school. "

― John Grisham , Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer (Theodore Boone, #1)

11 " Christmas is a fun theme for a courtroom tale, because like that " Miracle on 34th Street" , strange things have been known to happen when Christmas and the law come face to face. "

12 " With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story. "

13 " Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man. "