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When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Women are like a living, breathing casino Like a judge and jury They sense everything They sense what you try to hide They sense your weaknesses They sense your power levels One must be patient One must listen Watch And wait Before one strikesRobert Black
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The book argues that even though many cases have been held up as classic examples of modern American “witch hunts, ” none of them fits that description. McMartin certainly comes close. But a careful examination of the evidence presented at trial demonstrates why, in my view, a reasonable juror could vote for conviction, as many did in this case. Other cases that have been painted as witch-hunts turn out to involve significant, even overwhelming, evidence of guilt. There are a few cases to the contrary, but even those are more complicated than the witch-hunt narrative allows. In short, there was not, by any reasonable measure, an epidemic of “witch hunts” in the 1980s. There were big mistakes made in how some cases were handled, particularly in the earliest years. But even in those years there were cases such as those of Frank Fuster and Kelly Michaels that, I believe, were based on substantial evidence but later unfairly maligned as having no evidentiary support.Ross Cheit
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Having vision is much more than just being visual.Heru OforiAtta
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Mr Judge, Jury & Executioner of Micah Xavier Johnson‬ needs to go to jail as soon as possible — he is a danger to civilized society.Steven Magee
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We don’t yet have a body of scientific knowledge about evil to be called a facet of psychology. Therefore, religious reasoning for actions will always be at the discretion of the psychologist, thus making them the judge and jury over what is delusion and what is a spiritual experience that has to be sedated.Shannon L. Alder
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The jury’s still out on your level of intellect. After all, you signed up with Evil Incorporated in the first place.Katherine McIntyre
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Emotions are reserved for juries and, in that case, a good lawyer can really lay them on when the time is right, better than the best Academy Award winning actorKenneth Eade
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Since most law-abiding citizens had no contact with the parole system, it was not a priority with the state legislatures. And since most of the state's prisoners were either poor or black, and unable to use the system to their advantage, it was easy to hit them with harsh sentences and keep them locked up. But for an inmate with a few connections and some cash, the parole system was a marvelous labyrinth of contradictory laws that allowed the Parole Board to pass out favors.John Grisham
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The jury system was somewhat of an anomaly, like everything else in the law.Kenneth Eade
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It was ridiculous to think that twelve people could “turn off’ all their biases and prejudices and make a logical decision based on the evidence they were allowed to hear in the trial.Kenneth Eade
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Even though the Judge would charge the jury that they should listen to all the evidence before they made up their minds, the chances were likely that 100% of them will have already decided if William was guilty or not before the trial was over.Kenneth Eade
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There were eleven votes for "guilty." It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.Reginald Rose
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But in the absence of eye-witness there's always a doubt, sometimes only the shadow of a doubt. The law says 'reasonable doubt', but I think a defendant's entitled to the shadow of doubt. There's always the possibility, no matter how improbable, that he's innocent.Harper Lee
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.Herbert Spencer