Courtroom Quotations

Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance.

It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.

When Orson Welles was acting in 'Compulsion,' the director Richard Fleischer let him just take over and direct the courtroom scenes. To be able to see Welles - who knew more about directing than anyone - direct himself and the other actors, it was unbelievable and unforgettable.

If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.

It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom

From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.

I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.

I read a lot when I'm away. I love courtroom dramas and I'm always looking for new authors.

I have had positive experiences with cameras. When I have been asked to join experiments using cameras in the courtroom, I have participated; I have volunteered.

One of the local reporters assured me Garrison would put in an appearance for the cross-examination, but as the courtroom settled down and the rear doors were closed, there was no sign of him.

One of the things she really likes, whether we like it or not, is in the courtroom she has a certain amount of control. And that control is something that she craves.

Perjury in the courtroom can be eliminated by changing the oath to read: Do you solemly swear that SOME of your testimony in this matter will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth...so help you God?

Miss Ciccone (Madonna's given name) struts in this courtroom and thinks she's the star. Her problem is she comes in here and can't stop acting.

She came into this courtroom and asked for an apology, and none was forthcoming. He has taken no responsibility.

Since brain activation is arguably less susceptible to being controlled by an individual, our research will hopefully eliminate the shortcomings of the conventional polygraph test and produce a new method of objective lie detection that can be used reliably in a courtroom or other setting.

I was interested in getting courtroom experience. When I was a young lawyer, the only way I could get real courtroom experience was in the criminal law field.

I am back in the courtroom as a defense attorney. In fact, my first court appearance in a felony case as a defense lawyer was in front of guess who?

If a square peg doesnt fit a round hole, neither the peg nor the hole is to blame. Between two people, the question "whose fault is it?" is the friend of argumentation and the destroyer of growth-oriented communication. Assigning blame involves listening to criticize and responding to defend, speaking to lower the other person rather than speaking to build each up. Relational progress is impossible as long as blame is the focus because blame and progress are enemies. In our litigation-hungry society we must take care that focusing on fault - which is proper for the courtroom - doesnt carry over into interpersonal relationships. The heart of loving communication is listening to understand.

For us, it is not just having a terrorist event happening and then gathering the evidence to put it in a courtroom to convict somebody after we're able to identify him, detain him and extradite him.

But they looked across that courtroom and they saw another stone-faced, emotionless, sometimes even happy Scott Peterson. That complete disconnect was what destroyed Scott Peterson. Ultimately, the strongest piece of evidence against Scott was Scott himself.

We maintain that we can do a better job of accurately portraying what's going on in a courtroom if we can use the best tools available to us.

He's constantly reinventing himself. 'Romance,' for example, is a courtroom drama. You can find nothing else even remotely like that anywhere in his whole canon.

He had to have someone he trusted in the courtroom with him,

He's going to turn the courtroom into a circus and we can't have it.

I will walk into that courtroom with you.

I sat in that courtroom for six months, and I did everything possible to advocate for his cause.

It is a sad, sad situation to be in this courtroom in this country hearing a prosecutor saying to a jury that one of the things he relies upon is that Mr. Thomas thought about something.

Other than the interpreters' booths, the courtroom has the normal appearance of a multi-defendant trial.

I think he should try his cases in the courtroom and not in the media.

We were struck that the courtroom is such a great theater for ideas -- and that we couldn't think of a film that had combined the horror and courtroom genres, ... We thought we could really develop something provocative out of that: structure the movie with multiple points of view like Rashomon and weave the narrative in and out of it.

We were granted one of them. A major. He was standing outside the courtroom with his granted immunity, and the judge ruled his testimony irrelevant.

Those of us who watched him in the courtroom know that win or lose, he is one of the best trial lawyers in the country.

Titanic clashes in this video courtroom are likely to swirl around botched paint jobs, unshoveled sidewalks, defective toasters, aggressive guard dogs and every conceivable, and sometimes inconceivable, mishap involving a dry cleaner.

Those courtrooms are all occupied. The judges themselves had to work out how to make a courtroom available for that length of time.

We are behind in our courtroom security, ... We havent had anything serious happen, but we want to try to prevent this.

You are going to use this courtroom to kill me? I am going to fight for my life one way or another. You should let me do it with words.

You are in the courtroom of world opinion. You have denied they exist, and I want to know if I understood you correctly. I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over. And I am also prepared to present the evidence in this room!

That was timed to play well in the courtroom when they asked for more time, ... The rationale was to say, 'Gee, you can't pull the rug out now because we have a financing deal in the works.'

was in the process of assembling an army of attorneys, economists and IAM representatives with a wealth of airline bankruptcy experience and resources to ensure our members are treated fairly and their rights protected both in the courtroom and at the bargaining table.

There are men in this courtroom who are walking around and breathing because Duke Cunningham put his life at risk. There is no doubt that all of the good that he did in those many years will be washed away.

The person I heard in the courtroom was not the real Dennis,

At no point during the proceedings were we given a chance to explain ourselves. As soon as our attorney started reading a letter of support from Good Samaritan Hospital, 250 people in the courtroom began booing. It was something you would see on a TV show. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. It didn't feel like America. It just didn't.

A tone gets created in the courtroom that that's what's expected of the prospective jurors. I think it's difficult for some people to stand up in court and admit that's a problem.

Doctors, when they see a black box warning, it really makes them anxious in that they can imagine themselves, if an adverse event occurs, in a courtroom trying to explain to a judge why they prescribed the medicine when it says right on the label why it shouldn't be prescribed,

Could you imagine sitting in a courtroom reliving the tragedy that happened to your kids and knowing that you are on trial for causing that tragedy?

These were people's lives. These were people's loved ones who he targeted, tortured, dehumanized and did everything he could in their last minutes of life to make them experience absolute total terror while he played God. And he's just in there in the courtroom describing it like -- as if you and I would be reading it out of a recipe book,

I've represented several hundred people in domestic relations court, including both parents and children. I have a good perspective of what ought to happen in the courtroom as well as how to prepare, present and resolve cases.

It was the third worst day of my life. We sat in a courtroom for 4½ hours, learning what a good boy Linton was. It was cruel.

It was the third worst day of my life. We sat in a courtroom for 4? hours, learning what a good boy Linton was. It was cruel.

What can we say? What can we do? How many times can you stand in a courtroom beside an innocent man who has been convicted?

Ultimately, you have to learn how to live within the confines of a courtroom and not a boardroom. Lay did not master the courtroom as other chief executives have.

On this memorable day, we were honored to witness 50 petitioners, representing 24 different countries, take the oath of United States citizenship at a naturalization ceremony in the courtroom of Judge Gregory Frost. Having the privilege of watching this naturalization ceremony was an experience these fourth-graders and their teachers will never forget.

Finally, we're going to have our day in court. We need a good showing of our membership in the courtroom to prove a point.

You're supposed to go before a judge with both sides walking onto a level playing field. This is a complete corruption of the way the process in a Texas courtroom is supposed to take place.

They shut the door of the courtroom in our face and said you're not allowed in. The Legislature wrote the statute to protect themselves from exactly this kind of complaint.

Sometimes, we could use a little more space. I don't think, when that courtroom was built, that we had computers in there.

Are you against cameras in the courtroom like Justice Rehnquist was?

The result of the Ray Lewis case is that the only person to leave this courtroom with a conviction is Ray Lewis.

There's not one film that I've ever made that could get made today by a studio, not one - even 'A Few Good Men' because it's an adult courtroom drama, and studios do not make them any more. And so every movie that I make, have made and will make is always going be independently financed.

Why didn't they put the warning on the label? Because of money. Everyone in this courtroom should be offended that they put money first.

This case will be won in the courtroom and not through 'leaks' in the media. When he has his day in court, Michael Jackson will be acquitted and vindicated.

In the courtroom for the last six months, I didn't see much emotion at all. When I looked over there, it was a blank stare,

The benefit of being able to flashback during the courtroom scenes to varying perspectives on the possession and exorcism of Emily Rose allows the audience to make up their own mind about what they think may or may not have happened. My intention is to make a film that provokes people to ask themselves what they believe about evil, what they believe about the demonic.

At 13, she's still a child. She comes into a courtroom of strangers and tells the details of her abuse. Who would do that if it wasn't true?

Their presence in the courtroom was just fantastic.

The venom I witnessed in that courtroom going through this trial for the second time both terrified me and saddened me.

Cameras in the courtroom will change what we have had for centuries and what the people of this country seem to think is a valuable service in the criminal justice system.

By not trying the small cases, the lawyers don't get the courtroom experience. So when the huge, bet-the-company cases come along, there are only a handful of trial lawyers who can handle it. That's why these big corporations still call us old-timers every day.

He's on hold from immigration, ... Even if he had been acquitted, he wouldn't have been able to walk out of that courtroom yesterday ... immigration wants him.

It's an attempt to control decorum in the courtroom in a situation that is highly volatile considering the nature of the offense.

Somewhere out there, beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door.

The courtroom is the only place where you can be guilty and not guilty at the same time.

The kids are usually pretty quiet once we get to the jail. They go on a tour of all the major areas of the jail. They see the cell blocks, the communication center, the courtroom and a few other places.

Courtroom dramas can be boring.

It's the principle at stake here as to whether or not the courtroom doors are going to be open or shut. If you allow them to chip away at... court proceedings and records, pretty soon you won't have open courts anymore.

There will be no direct evidence introduced by the government that Martha Stewart conspired to obstruct anything. No witness will appear in this courtroom during the trial to say 'Martha told me to do something unlawful'.

We certainly see no reason why diplomats and journalists who have complied with the court-stated procedures for entering the courtroom should be arbitrarily prevented from doing so.

It was shocking just seeing him, ... I couldn't do anything but look at him the whole time. I left out of the courtroom I have so much anger.

Though it is clearly not Microsoft's responsibility to provide fixes to another vendor's product, we decided to offer the fix to customers because we feel they should not pay the price for Apple's programming mistakes, groundless allegations and courtroom antics.

We firmly believe that he never would have been convicted had the court not given this instruction, ... because it was clear to anyone sitting in the courtroom that there was no credible evidence that Bernie knew about the accounting decisions in question.

There's an international audience for (the trial), but also a domestic one and an audience within the greater Arab world. (If) the Arab world sees Iraqi trying Iraqi, in an Iraqi courtroom under Iraqi law, it sends a message more powerful than any international court (could send) that a new day truly is here.

They really haven't gotten to see me in the courtroom and there's no way they could really make an informed decision on who to endorse,

I am personally familiar with the courtroom skills that the new lawyers have brought to our firm. These highly- experienced litigators will enable us to provide our brand of responsive, high-quality representation to an even broader base of clients, including both technology companies and other clients that require seasoned trial attorneys to handle any type of high-stakes litigation. This merger cements our status as one of the top tier litigation firms in the state of Texas.

If citizens are allowed to lie with impunity, or encourage others to tell false stories or hide evidence, judges and juries cannot reach just results. At that point the courtroom becomes an arena for artful liars, and the jury a mere focus group choosing between alternative fictions,

I love being in a courtroom.

And what importance do I have in the courtroom of oblivion?

All of these 'strangers' who were given priority seating will walk out of that courtroom with smiles on their faces and be able to say, 'I was in the courtroom when Scott Peterson was sentenced.' To them, it's a show, entertainment, a status quo. They will go on with their lives and put all this behind them,

I don't know that I could do a procedural legal drama and spend all my time in a courtroom talking legal jargon that I don't necessarily understand.

The Bible says, Judge not lest ye be judged. Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.

Compared with the previous occasion when Judge Jackson heard oral argument on the facts in September 1999, he played more of an active role in the courtroom today, ... He asked a lot of questions, which revealed that he is still thinking quite a bit about the part of the opinion that deals with tying.