#courtroom

A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged. ↗

— Harry Browne

#assumption #challenged #competent #counsel #courtroom

Jurors want courtroom lawyers to have some compassion and be nice. ↗

— Johnnie Cochran

#compassion #courtroom #jurors #lawyers #nice

Courtroom dramas can be boring. ↗

— Laura Linney

#courtroom #dramas

I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#academia #also #carpet #course #courtroom

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

— Lance Ito

#courtroom #filtering #see #you

If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public. ↗

— Lance Ito

#certain #courtroom #hide #measure #out

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

— Lance Ito

#courtroom #filtering #see #whereas #you

This is the time that I really miss being in my courtroom because I believe that that's the last place in this country where there's supposed to be fairness. ↗

— Star Jones

#being #believe #country #courtroom #fairness

And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know. ↗

— Lance Ito

#american public #cameras #certain #courtroom #hide

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#evidence #hear #jail #jury #laughing