Quotes About Acquittal

#1. No jury in this part of the world's going to say, "We think you're guilty, but not very," on a charge like that. It was either straight acquittal or nothing.

Harper Lee

#2. 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

#3. Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.

Mason Cooley

#4. And is it not ridiculous to think of justice when society greets all violence as a reasonable and expedient necessity, and any act of mercy - an acquittal, for instance - provokes a great outburst of dissatisfied, vengeful feeling?

Anton Chekhov

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

Horace

#8. 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

#9. Concurring.' But now we know what I suspected. Two people on the board voted for acquittal, which means there are

Nelson DeMille

#10. 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

#11. Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.

Samuel Richardson

#12. So this isn't in any sense acquittal through moral performance, or a reward for good conduct. It's not something earned by years of carefully crafted holiness. It's a wholly "free gift," as Paul says five times in the span of three verses.

John Webster

#13. I knew I was coming home, I thought they would consider acquittal, I was disappointed that they didn't.

Louise Woodward

#14. 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

#15. To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of a little mind; but it requires a soul of no common stamp to be satisfied with its own acquittal, and to despise the condemnation of the world.

Charles Caleb Colton

#16. Atticus took his career in his hands, made good use of a careless indictment, took his stand before a jury, and accomplished what was never before or afterwards done in Maycomb County: he won an acquittal for a colored boy on a rape charge. The chief witness for the prosecution was a white girl.

Harper Lee

#17. A sense of having been decoyed by some world-old conspiracy into this bondage of body and soul filled her with despair. If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature.

Edith Wharton

#18. Self-condemnation is God's absolution; and pleading guilty, acquittal at his bar.

C. A. Bartol

#19. He won an acquittal for a colored boy on a rape charge.

Harper Lee

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.

Baron De Montesquieu

#25. Prudence does not save us, but shows us pictures of our destroyers.

Mason Cooley

#26. Perhaps the mourners learn to look to the blue sky by day, and to the stars by night, and to think that the dead are there, and not in graves

Charles Dickens

#27. Every time passionate people fail, they are convinced that they are simply one step closer to fulfilling their dream.

Zig Ziglar

#28. No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.

Elie Wiesel

#29. The manner in which things exist and take place, constitutes what is called the nature of things; and a careful observation of the nature of things is the sole foundation of all truth.

Jean-Baptiste Say

#30. I have no plans to have any other home than Moscow. However, I love to travel, and I'm very comfortable in New York. In many ways, it reminds me of Moscow in its energy and drive.

Mikhail Prokhorov

#31. There was no harm done; and what would a Resurrection be without a few laughs?

Clive Barker

#32. Being under my own roof, and my personality not invaded by others makes a lot of difference in my outlook on life and everything. Oh, to be once more alone in a house!

Zora Neale Hurston

#33. The raising of ghosts or devils was a promise liberally accorded by my favourite authors,

Mary Shelley

#34. The borderlanders are people who are kind of caught in the middle. They think there must be another world out there. There probably is a God, but they are either turned off by the church or wounded by the church or wary of the church for whatever reason.

Philip Yancey