Acquittal Quotes

• If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.

  Johnnie Cochran

  Memorable, Justice, Advice

  Johnnie Cochran, David Fisher (2003). “A Lawyer's Life”, p.108, Macmillan

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• Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

  Horace

  Judging, Judgement, Internet

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• 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

  Rap, Mean, Winning

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• For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must be the general law; the minor, the action that conforms or does not conform to the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punishment. If the judge were constrained, or if he desired to frame even a single additional syllogism, the door would thereby be opened to uncertainty.

  Cesare Beccaria

  Doors, Law, Punishment

  Cesare Beccaria (1963). “On Crimes and Punishments”, Pearson College Division

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• 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

  Humor, Law, Clients

  Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.143, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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

  Zero, Russia, Political

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If it does not fit, you must acquit.

  Johnnie Cochran

  Doe, Fit, Ifs

  Johnnie Cochran, David Fisher (2003). “A Lawyer's Life”, p.108, Macmillan

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• 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

  Names, Lame, Innocent

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.367, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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

  Men, World, Action

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• 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

  Defense, Satisfaction, Sides

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• The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is the judge: God is in the dock. He is quite a kindly judge: if God should have a reasonable defense for being the god who permits war, poverty, and disease, he is ready to listen to it. The trial may even end in God's acquittal. But the important thing is that Man is on the bench and God is in the dock.

  C. S. Lewis

  War, Men, Should Have

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• Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely, but Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees us whole. Christ's love so wishes our joy that it is ruthless against everything in us that diminishes our joy. The worst sentence Love can pass is that we behold the suffering which Love has endured for our sake, and that is also our acquittal. The justice and mercy of the judge are ultimately one.

  Frederick Buechner

  Love, Justice, Judging

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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• 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

  Soul, Secret, Mind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.137

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• Our measure of rewards and punishments is most partial and incomplete, absurdly inadequate, utterly worldly; and we wish to continue it into the next world. Into that next and awful world we strive to pursue men, and send after them our impotent paltry verdicts of condemnation or acquittal. We set up our paltry little rod to measure heaven immeasurable.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Heaven, Wish

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.1951, Delphi Classics

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• Interestingly enough, I feel what the show [OJ Simpson] was able to accomplish in a really masterful way is that White America could look back on the show and the documentary and say, "We understand why Black people were effusive at the acquittal of O.J. Simpson."

  Sterling K. Brown

  White, America, People

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Just as important I believe, is Black America can look back at the show and say, "Wow, I think I now understand why a lot of white people were appalled at the acquittal of O.J. Simpson."

  Sterling K. Brown

  Believe, Thinking, White

  Source: www.ebony.com

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

  Samuel Richardson

  Self, Accusation, Applause

  Samuel Richardson (2015). “Pamela Volume 2: Samuel Richardson Collections”, p.243, 谷月社

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• 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

  Redneck, America, People

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

  Mason Cooley

  Mortality, Series, Postponement

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

  C. A. Bartol

  Self, Bars, Guilty

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