Trial Quotes

“As a society, we adhere to the belief in a fair trial for a person accused of a serious crime, but some of us struggle when it comes to the business of providing a competent lawyer to guarantee said fair trial. Lawyers like me live with the question “But how do you represent such scum?”

I offer a quick “Someone has to” as I walk away.

Do we really want fair trials? No, we do not. We want justice, and quickly. And justice is whatever we deem it to be on a case-by-case basis.

It’s just as well that we don’t believe in fair trials because we damned sure don’t have them. The presumption of innocence is now the presumption of guilt. The burden of proof is a travesty because the proof is often lies. Guilt beyond a reasonable doubt means if he probably did it, then let’s get him off the streets.”
― John Grisham, Rogue Lawyer

“Fear tells me that while there might be a host of people who wish to stand beside me in times of crisis, the tangled wreckage is sometimes so enormous that the best of their efforts leave them stranded at a great distance. And standing desperately alone surveying the carnage that holds all others a bay, God suddenly taps me on the shoulder, leans over and whispers, 'how about a little demolition?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Trust is always a risk, but when placed in the right people after a trial period where they prove themselves worthy of it, it is a reward transcendent of all the emotional mire that bogs down a person’s potential.”
― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar

“People who become successful take every “today’s victory” as a rehearsal for tomorrows trophy.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion

“Alfred is taken past this broom, and enters this room; which can only be described as 'piecemeal'. It is full of pieces of fish-market paraphernalia, pieces of military-regalia; and pieces of rusted-steel.
It is full of these spiky-hooks, fishmongery-books; and saline-scalers. These bayonet-blades, grenades; and dusty loud-halers.”
― Joss Sheldon, 'Involution & Evolution': A rhyming anti-war novel

“Sherlock Holmes and Jem Finch would agree.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Work hard and take risks. Try it before you confirm it is difficult!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“​It's Hard, Not to Fail, but, there is Always a Chance of Success. Of course, there is No Chance of Success, if You didn't Try.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“In 2011 in Swansea, Wales, Colin Batley was found guilty of 35 charges relating to his role as the leader of a 'satanic cult' that sexually abused children and women, manufactured child abuse images and forced children and women into prostitution (de Bruxelles 2011).
His partner and two other women were also convicted on related charges, with one man convicted of paying to abuse a victim of the group. The groups' ritualistic activities were based on the doctrine of Aleister Crowley, an occult figure whose writing includes references to ritual sex with children. Crowley's literature has been widely linked to the practice of ritualistic abuse by survivors and their advocates, who in turn have been accused by occult groups of religious persecution. During Batley's trial, the prosecution claimed that Crowley's writings formed the basis of Batley's organisation and he read from a copy of it during sexually abusive incidents. It seems that alternative as well as mainstream religious traditions can be misused by sexually abusive groups. p38”
― Michael Salter, Organised Sexual Abuse

“When failure imprisons you for not doing what you should have done, you have no option than to bail yourself on the promise of trying again! Try again!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“If you get a second chance, grab it with the first and second hands. Never let it go till all is done and done well. Second chances come with the last graces!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“When a person builds his life on the Word of God, he is not afraid of any trial.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“But the Christian writer seems, by the usual course of the argument, to have been deprived of the common presumption of charity in his favor; and reversing the ordinary rule of administering justice in human tribunals, his testimony is unjustly presumed to be false, until it is proved to be true. ...{independent historians} have been treated, in the argument, almost as if the New Testament were the entire production, at once, of a body of men, conspiring by a joint fabrication, to impose a false religion upon the world.”
― Simon Greenleaf, An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists, by the Rules of Evidence administered in Courts of Justice

“Every positive attempt was as a result of encouragement, every encouragement leads to success.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“صعبة هي تلك اللحظات حين نستبدل أبطال القصص بأنفسنا، ولا ندري إن كانت أرواحنا ستطيق مجريات الأحداث، أم أنّها ستعجز، فتحتبس عجزها، فيتمرّد، فتنفجر. ولا ندري إن كانت مدامع أعيننا ستجفّ فتتصحّر ملامحنا، وتتيبّس مقلنا..أم ستطوف نِيلاً، فتنتفخ المحاجر، وتحمرّ الأنوف. وبين هذا وذاك، يبقى مفتاح الدّراية التجربة. فمتى جرّبت علمت.. وغالباً ندمت.”
― حنان فرحات - Hanan Farhat, فاقد الهوية

“The whole hard work in achieving any goal is not in the means of achieving greater heights, but in the courage in fulfilling the simple yet daunting tasks.”
― Chinonye J. Chidolue

“For a trial is initiated not to render justice but to annihilate the defendant.
Even when the trial is of dead people, the point is to kill them off a second time: by burning their books; by removing their names from the schoolbooks; by demolishing their monuments; by rechristening the streets that bore their names.”
― Milan Kundera, Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts

“Sooner or later, we all go through a crucible. I'm guessing your's was that island. Most believe there are two types of people who go into a crucible: the ones who grow stronger from the experience and survive it, and the ones who die. But there's a third type: the ones who learn to love the fire. They chose to stay in their crucible because it's easier to embrace the pain when it's all you know anymore,”
― Marc Guggenheim

“By Trial And Error Divine Principles That Govern Our Behavior Has Been Discovered”
― Sunday Adelaja

“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, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Pilate, as the histories reveal, was not one for trials. In his ten years as governor of Jerusalem, he had sent thousands upon thousands to the cross with a simple scratch of his reed pen on a slip of papyrus. The notion that he would even be in the same room as Jesus, let alone deign to grant him a "trial," beggars the imagination. Either the threat posed by Jesus to the stability of Jerusalem is so great that he is one of only a handful of Jews to have the opportunity to stand before Pilate and answer for his alleged crimes, or else the so-called trial before Pilate is pure legend.”
― Reza Aslan, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

“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 G. Eade, HOA Wire

“Rather blessings, after counting my misfortunes, I realized how the more blessed I am.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Do people/circumstances take up space in your head...without paying rent? What we spend the majority of our thoughts on/in is what we revere and fear! (EL)”
― Evinda Lepins, A Cup of Grace for the Day

“ANTONIO PONTÓN’S TRIAL made front page headlines across major newspapers. On April 17, 1915, the Schenectady Gazette headline read, “Trial of Ponton on the Charge of Committing one of Most Startling Murders in History of County.”
― Yasmin Tirado-Chiodini, Antonio's Will

“Hold on. Keep trying. God loves you. Things will improve.”
― Jeffrey R. Holland

“I wonder if He anticipates the day when He can make us understand what was occurring in our time of trial. I wonder if He broods over our sorrows.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“We’re here to execute a murderer,” Zil said, pointing at Hunter. “We are bringing justice in the name of all normals.”
“There’s no justice without a trial,” Astrid said.
Zil grinned. He spread his hands. “We had a trial, Astrid. And this chud scum was found guilty of murdering a normal.
“The penalty,” he added, “is death.”
Astrid turned to face the mob. “If you do this, you’ll never forgive yourselves.”
“We’re hungry,” a voice cried, and was immediately echoed by others.
“You’re going to murder a boy in a church?” Astrid demanded, pointing toward the church. “A church? In God’s house?”
Zil could see that those words had an effect. There were some nervous looks.
“You will never wash the stain of this off your hands,” Astrid cried. “If you do this, you will never be able to forget it. What do you think your parents would say?”
“There are no parents in the FAYZ. No God, either,” Zil said. “There’s just humans trying to stay alive, and freaks taking everything for themselves.”
― Michael Grant, Hunger

“Knowing that God is backing up our words and actions makes us strong, firm and courageous in any trial or persecution”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Twilight is a court; when the sun sets we are put on trial in this dusky court! All things we have done throughout the day are interrogated by our conscience, the invisible judge of our minds!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan