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You have a case, Holmes?" I remarked. "The faculty of deduction is certainly contagious, Watson," he answered. "It has enabled you to probe my secret. Yes, I have a case. After a month of trivialities and stagnation the wheels move once more. By Arthur Conan Doyle Holmes Case Watson Remarked Contagious

The vast majority of criminal cases are settled by plea bargaining. Only the rare civil case goes to trial, not least because most judges now see "case management" rather than presiding over trials as their primary responsibility. Late By Mark Tushnet Bargaining Vast Majority Criminal Settled

The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice. By John Lancaster Spalding Formal Discipline Petty Insincere Study

I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night. By Christopher Darden Law Longer Teach Night Advised

You don't approach a case with the philosophy of applying abstract justice-you go in to win By Percy Foreman Win Approach Case Philosophy Applying

A trial is two narratives competing for your attention. By Harlan Coben Attention Trial Narratives Competing

This case reminds me of one in which I likened the Plaintiff's case to a colander, because it was so full of holes. By George Jessel Plaintiff Colander Holes Case Reminds

No case is really answered until it has had a fair hearing By George Orwell Hearing Case Answered Fair

When did the defendant first By Robert Harris Defendant

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America. By Warren E. Burger Justice Concepts Cost Hands Feet

I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there. By Floyd Abrams Lost Lawyers Impressed Write Books

with perfect posture - shoulders back, gaze ahead - but her feet felt unsteady beneath her. The defendant. For three weeks, everyone in this courtroom had referred to her as "the defendant." Not Casey. Not her given name, Katherine Carter. Certainly not Mrs. Hunter Raleigh III, the name she would have taken by now if everything had been different. In this room, she'd been treated as a legal term, not as a real person, a person who had loved Hunter more deeply than she'd ever thought possible. When the judge gazed down from By Mary Higgins Clark Defendant Posture Shoulders Back Gaze

Misery is the company of lawsuits. By Francois Rabelais Misery Lawsuits Company

What have you got on Case that makes you so untouchable?" Braxton asked. "She trusts me." Braxton laughed, disbelieving, as Angel put the injunctions back in order. Angel said, "People like you write everything down because you know everyone is a liar. It's how you lawyers do." He slapped Braxton in the chest with the legal documents, grinning. "And that's why Case trusts me and treats you like a dog - you're the one who writes things down. By Paolo Bacigalupi Braxton Untouchable Case Makes Angel

before a jury. It takes time: time to By John Grisham Jury Time

The gladsome light of jurisprudence. By Edward Coke Jurisprudence Gladsome Light

The great joy of being a prosecutor is that you don't take whatever case walks in the door. You evaluate the case; you make your best judgement. You only go forward if you believe that the defendant is guilty. By Merrick Garland Door Case Great Joy Prosecutor

This book comes from the reflections and experience of more than forty years spent in court. Aside from the practice of my profession, the topics I have treated are such as have always held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss the human machine with its manifestations and the causes of its varied activity. By Clarence Darrow Court Reflections Experience Forty Years

Landry case and - Jesus - didn't someone just send you a By Robert Galbraith Jesus Landry Case Send

It's a cold case, you have to let me help even when you don't want to.""Why?""Because I'm obsessed with cold cases.""You have one you can't solve?""I have one I do not want to solve. By Rea Lidde Solve Cold Case Cases Obsessed

In sane moments we regard only the facts, the case that is. By Henry David Thoreau Facts Sane Moments Regard Case

A lawsuit is to ordinary life what war is to peacetime. In a lawsuit, everybody on the other side is bad. A trial transcript is a discourse in malevolence. By Janet Malcolm Peacetime Lawsuit Ordinary Life War

Odd cases like his intrigued me. By Julie Berry Odd Cases Intrigued

Simply by the nature of the work, every lawyer gets at least one case in his lifetime that affects him personally. This one's mine, I guess. By Harper Lee Simply Work Personally Nature Lawyer

We're lawyers. We present the arguments, and the court sorts out the merits. By David Boies Lawyers Arguments Merits Present Court

My case was wrongfully decided, and has caused great harm to the women and children of our nation. By Norma Mccorvey Decided Nation Case Wrongfully Caused

the details of every legal proceeding By Yuval Noah Harari Proceeding Details Legal

I tried not to write about the O.J. Simpson case too much because so much has already been said about it, but there are a lot of questions left worth asking. However, the case is very useful to illustrate other points. The case is a common reference point because everybody knows the ins and outs of it, more than any other case in this generation, so it becomes useful to reference other points. In itself, there aren't that many questions about it that remain unanswered. By Bill James Case Write Points Questions Reference

I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case. By Floyd Abrams Vietnam Case Pentagon Papers York

Every case is different, and how we deal with every case is different. But what's the same is we work it, we do the job, and we take the risks the job demands. That's it. By J.d. Robb Case Deal Job Demands Work

Even the wettest violence, in the end, is cooked down to the stuff of court cases; a ream of paper, a few exhibits, a dozen ... witnesses. The world looks away, and why not? By William Landay Witnesses Violence End Cases Paper

Many hours of law-school argumentation have been spent on what to do with a man who stabs a corpse thinking it is his sleeping enemy, or whether it makes sense to charge a shooter with attempted murder if the nearest hospital is five minutes away and his victim survives, but to charge him with murder if the nearest hospital is fifteen minutes away and the victim succumbs. By Steven Pinker Nearest Hospital Charge Murder Minutes

Gettin' dressed up for court, that's a law suit By Big Sean Gettin Dressed Court Suit Law

Q. What do lawyers wear to court? A. Lawsuits! By Ima Phuneewon Court Lawsuits Lawyers Wear

I do not often get involved in litigation, largely because it is often simply impossible to conclude with scientific certainty what caused something to break. The fact that almost every case involves opposing experts just serves to confirm this difficulty. By Mark Eberhart Litigation Largely Break Involved Simply

Litigation is notoriously time-consuming, inefficient, costly and unpredictable. By Charlie Munger Inefficient Litigation Timeconsuming Costly Unpredictable

This is a court of law, not a court of justice. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Court Law Justice

I just know that any time I undertake a case, I'm apt to run into some kind of a trap. By Carolyn Keene Case Trap Time Undertake Apt

[T]he commitment of time, money and man power necessary for a capital case is enormous and it takes from other cases. But I think what bothers me most is that it offers to the families of the victims and the survivors a false sense of closure. By Richard Brown Time Money Commitment Man Power

I remember that rape case you defended, but I missed the point. You love justice, all right. Abstract justice written down item by item on a brief - nothing to do with that black boy, you just like a neat brief. His cause interfered with your orderly mind, and you had to work order out of disorder. It's a compulsion with you, and now it's coming home to you - By Harper Lee Defended Point Remember Rape Case

How do you solve a case without a face? By Winston J Knowlton Face Solve Case

Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances By Napoleon Bonaparte Circumstances Circumstanceswhat Make

There's a lot of money with a lot of big law firms that have a tremendous amount at stake by getting the right language to convince the right jury that my client is either innocent or that the opposition is guilty. By Frank Luntz Lot Guilty Money Big Law

A trial is still an ordeal by battle. For the broadsword there is the weight of evidence; for the battle-ax the force of logic; for the sharp spear, the blazing gleam of truth; for the rapier, the quick and flashing knife of wit. By Lloyd Paul Stryker Battle Trial Ordeal Evidence Logic

It is when the colors do not match, when the references in the index fail, when there is no decisive precedent, that the serious business of the judge begins By Benjamin Cardozo Match Fail Precedent Begins Colors

Successful trial lawyers are like heat-seeking missiles carrying payloads of information prejudicial to their opponent's case, constantly looking for the chance to unload their cargo, right up until the final moments of trial. By David Berg Successful Case Constantly Cargo Trial

You can, if you wish, think of it like the universe: Each case is a sun, and all the judges, lawyers and administrative personnel represent planets revolving around the case in fixed orbit, never getting closer. By Sol Wachtler Case Universe Sun Judges Lawyers

There are defendants whom the judges are afraid of. By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Defendants Judges Afraid

Back then, as now, narratives shaped outcomes in courtrooms. By Barry Siegel Back Narratives Courtrooms Shaped Outcomes

Jonathan Green had a firm handshake, clear eyes, and a jawline not dissimilar to Dudley Do-Right's. He was in his early sixties, with graying hair, a beach-club tan, and a voice that was rich and comforting. A minister's voice. He wasn't a handsome man, but there was a sincerity in his eyes that put you at ease. Jonathan Green was reputed to be one of the top five criminal defense attorneys in America, with a success rate in high-profile criminal defense cases of one hundred percent. Like Elliot Truly, Jonathan Green was wearing an impeccably tailored blue Armani suit. So were the lesser attorneys. Maybe they got a bulk discount. I was wearing impeccably tailored black Gap jeans, a linen aloha shirt, and white Reebok sneakers. Green said, Did Elliot explain why we wanted to see you? By Robert Crais Green Dudley Jonathan Handshake Clear

Trying a case a second time is like eating yesterday morning's oatmeal. By Lloyd Paul Stryker Oatmeal Case Time Eating Yesterday

Litigation is a tool used by negotiators. By Gerard I. Nierenberg Litigation Negotiators Tool

Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards. By Jodi Picoult Lawyers Places Awards Notorious Finding

A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency, insecurities, dreams and nightmares upon facts ... What's inside is every fairy-tale monster, a brutal ogre, a bloodthirsty werewolf, an elegant vampire, a scheming devil, a bullying giant, a sneering troll, or maybe just an abusive stepfather. By Ron Franscell Fears Impatience Insolence Clemency Insecurities

This case deserves to be a classic. By Arthur Conan Doyle Classic Case Deserves

Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason. By John Powell Case Reason Law

This isn't a courtroom, pal," I said to Nelson, "this is the gutter. No fancy robes, no platitudes engraved in marble, no brass railing dividing the sides. This is the streets and the alleys. this is the Chicago we really live in. Here justice isn't dispensed with a wooden gavel, it's taken with your bare hands. It may be Tubby's world, a part of it, but it's also August Jansen's world, and my world, and yours. Darrow's a great man but this work comes after the fact, after the real battles of life are fought. Lawyers and judges pick up the pieces after the dust settles. Their job is to make sense of what's happened, not make it happen. That occurs in the gutter where blood and bone and horse manure and coal dust and sweat and fear blend and roil. In the end you either have hope or sewage. It can go either way, but it goes on. By James Conroy Nelson Pal World Courtroom Gutter

Questions for questions. You're a man who's spent time at court. By Mark Lawrence Questions Court Man Spent Time

Lawsuits are not pink teas. They are battles. By Edgar Smith Lawsuits Teas Pink Battles

What do you do with a textbook case when no one's written the textbook? By Neal Shusterman Textbook Case Written

The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty. By Ashleigh Brilliant Guilty Case Long Forgotten Innocent

I have told somebody in court that 'I understand yours is the most important case in the world, and I'm trying to treat it as the most important case in the world, but five minutes from now I'm going to be dealing with the next person's most important case in the world.' For every litigant, theirs is the most important case. By Steven Pacey World Important Case Told Court

Bad laws make hard cases. By C.s. Lewis Bad Cases Laws Make Hard

For the lawyers, who cared not about the moral aspect of the case, but only, so to speak, about its contemporary legal aspect. By Fyodor Dostoyevsky Aspect Lawyers Case Speak Cared

When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys. By Christine Pelosi San Francisco Attorneys Prosecutor Advice

A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument. By Clifford Irving Russian Jury Finally Witnesses Drama

What it meant." "That's fine." Bosch moved to the drawer and looked in. There were two thin manila files and two packs of envelopes with rubber bands holding them together. The first file he looked through contained Eno's birth certificate, passport, marriage license and other personal records. He put it back in the drawer. The next file contained LAPD forms and Bosch quickly recognized them as the pages and reports that had been removed from the Marjorie Lowe murder book. He knew he had no time to read them at the moment and put the file in the beer box with the other files. The rubber band on the first package of envelopes snapped when he tried to remove it and he was reminded of the band that had been around the blue binder that contained the case files. Everything about this case was old and ready to snap, he thought. The envelopes were all from a Wells Fargo Bank branch in Sherman Oaks and each one contained a statement for a savings account in the name of McCage By Michael Connelly Contained Files File Envelopes Meant

When I get a case about discrimination, I have to think about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because of their ethnic background or because of religion or because of gender. And I do take that into account. By Samuel Alito Discrimination Gender Case People Family

I would never take a case that had to do with abusing children. They're the true innocents. By Lynne Stewart Children Case Abusing Innocents True

There's scarce a case comes on but you shall findA woman's at the bottom.[Lat., Nulla fere causa est in qua non femina litem moverit.] By Juvenal Lat Nulla Bottom Moverit Scarce

in my four months of legal cramming I'd learned the law is full of technicalities. Technicalities are what screw up justice. Wilcox By Frank W. Abagnale Technicalities Months Legal Cramming Learned

Precedent goes in support of justice. By Sherrilyn Kenyon Precedent Justice Support

Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges. By Dennis Hastert Cagey Case Merit Judges Trial

The history of successful cases, some of which are in this museum, illustrates that often the regulators and legislatures don't wake up until some plaintiff gets a lawyers and digs out the cover-ups and the incriminating information about a safety defect in an automobile or another product. By Ralph Nader Cases Museum Illustrates Product History

I tried to decide each case based on the law and the Constitution. By Sandra Day O'connor Constitution Decide Case Based Law

Guilty until proven innocent- A By Sara Shepard Guilty Innocent Proven

One of the more difficult things about being a judge is as you're listening to the evidence, you have to be formulating how you're going to explain your evaluation of that evidence. By Steven Pacey Evidence Difficult Things Judge Listening

Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most. By Dan Abrams Court Supreme Arguments Decisions Fascinating

Emotional truths woven by lawyers in the court of law are apparently more important than the truths of actual events. I have grown to fear for those whose innocence became trapped within the legal system. By Neil Degrasse Tyson Truths Emotional Events Woven Lawyers

I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore. By Nancy Grace Years Anymore Prosecutor Crime Victim

In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water. By Charles Caleb Colton Midst Law Justice Water Civil

Criminal justice, as it pertains to the Goldmans and Morgan Stanleys of the world, is not adversarial combat, with cops and crooks duking it out in interrogation rooms and courthouses. Instead, it's a cocktail party between friends and colleagues who from month to month and year to year are constantly switching sides and trading hats. By Matt Taibbi Goldmans Morgan Stanleys Criminal Justice

All cases are unique, and very similar to others. By T. S. Eliot Unique Cases Similar

This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at a lot. I understand the emotionality of death penalty cases. By George W. Bush Lot Full Analyzation Looked Case

You know, Brent, that every case is like a puzzle within a puzzle within another puzzle. Some pieces are always missing, and some never would fit no matter what. We call that police work." "We call it reasonable doubt. By Kenneth Eade Brent Puzzle Case Call Missing

I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front. By Kate Atkinson Case Histories Mysteries Upfront Loved

I do not apologize for these terms or, more generally, for discussing judicial thinking in a vocabulary alien to most judges and lawyers. Judicial behavior cannot be understood in the vocabulary that judges themselves use, sometimes mischievously. (11) By Richard A. Posner Generally Lawyers Judicial Vocabulary Judges

Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, and so I dropped the matter. When you can't cure a disaster by argument, what is the use to argue? By Mark Twain Case Matter Sort Bastard Justice

I always like cases when the victim's been practically begging to be killed. It means I don't have to be sorry for him. By Kerry Greenwood Killed Cases Victim Practically Begging

I'm an appellate criminal defense attorney. I'm used to losing. By Vanessa Place Attorney Appellate Criminal Defense Losing

During a trial, boy, you think, eat, sleep and crap only the trial. By Kenneth Eade Boy Eat Trial Sleep Crap

The U.S. legal system is organized as an adversarial contest: in civil cases, between two citizens; in criminal cases, between a citizen and the state. Physical violence and intimidation are not allowed in court, whereas aggressive argument, selective presentation of the facts, and psychological attack are permitted, with the presumption that this ritualized, hostile encounter offers the best method of arriving at the truth. By Judith Lewis Herman Cases Legal Contest State Citizens

Judges don't get to choose their cases. When a case goes to court, the judge assigned to it did not commit the crime, was not a witness to the crime, and was not affected by the crime, but he or she is still responsible for the crime. The judge must then choose the consequences; he or she must identify the metric against which the crime will be measured and make sure that the chosen metric is carried out. We By Mark Manson Crime Judge Choose Metric Cases

[S]ome score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be as here they are mistily engaged in one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause, tripping one another up on slippery precedents, groping knee-deep in technicalities, running their goat-hair and horse-hair warded heads against walls of words, and making a pretence of equity with serious faces ... By Charles Dickens High Court Chancery Ome Tripping

In one case where William was attacked, the perpetrators were brought to court and admitted their guilt, yet the judge dismissed the case. As the culprits came from 'good Christian homes' and attended church, the judge concluded they were 'just misguided youths' and could not be found guilty, despite every one of them having experienced disciplinary action or been in trouble with the law before. By Sylvia Broeckx Case William Judge Attacked Guilt

Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy. By Jack Kingston Frivolous County Lawsuits Booming World

Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case By John Maynard Keynes Case Decided Reasons Real Merits

Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them. By William James Life Cases Conclusions Long Struggle

Got your fingerprints as evidence all on my bodyPut your right hand on the book and you were found guiltyI can't wait forever but that's how it's gonna beFor me they'll never beCase Closed By Little Mix Closed Fingerprints Evidence Bodyput Hand

Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn. By Clarence Darrow Forget Sworn Case Won Lost