Abusive Quote by Ron Franscell

A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are…

— Clifford Irving

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

— Ambrose Bierce

A trial is two narratives competing for your attention.

— Harlan Coben

“And that's the terrible thing about these past trials, is that they have this aura of legitimacy, this aura of legality. I suspect that…

— William M. Kunstler

It is a trial within a nation but a trial of victors against the vanquished. Even before the trials started, the victors who are…

— Julius Streicher

“The state's case against Smith, however, did claim to speak to his actual guilt or innocence, and it has to be considered carefully. The…

— Sebastian Junger

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;…

— Lloyd Paul Stryker

One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

A criminal has a kind of freedom by definition that the ordinary citizen doesn't have. The criminal's able to realize himself in ways not…

— William Monahan

A criminal is undoubtedly a poor soul, who is punished for his poverty.

— Thomas Bernhard