Top 177 Courtroom Quotes & Sayings

People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.

I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.

Honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.

There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.

When you have a child victim, I don't think cameras should be in the courtroom, ever.

If Mike Tyson is in your courtroom and you don't send him to jail, it's an injustice. Everyone knows he's a bad guy. So if he is in your courtroom, he should go to jail.

'Jolly LLB' is one of my favorite movies. Courtroom films are rare to come by in Telugu.

Cameras in the courtroom is a great idea.

The only way those Ten Commandments and prayer would be stripped from that Courtroom is with the force of arms.

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

I grew up on courtroom dramas, and I really love the feel of a dramatic thriller.

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

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

No country anywhere in the world allows material that genuinely puts national security at risk into the public domain, and that includes a courtroom.

The day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it's going to roll over my dead body.

Well, honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.

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

Boy, you'll have a fair trial. Race, creed or color, justice will be done in my courtroom.

The world is not a courtroom There is no judge no jury no plaintiff. This is a caravan filled with eccentric beings telling wondrous stories about God.

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

Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.

Contrary to common belief, the presumption of innocence applies only inside a courtroom. It has no applicability elsewhere, although the media do not seem to be aware of this.

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

Hailey [as a character] was born when I left the courtroom and moved to New York for Cochran and Grace, my TV show with Johnnie Cochran. I moved with two boxes of clothes, a curling iron, and $300; I didn't know a soul in the city, so I would come home at night and I'd be all alone and just write. I missed the courtroom and [what led me to the courtroom] so much I wrote about it. After my fiancé Keith's murder, I had never thought I would have children - I thought that it was not God's plan for me to have a family.

Courtroom dramas can be boring.

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.

When I did counterintelligence investigations, they rarely saw the inside of a courtroom. That wasn't the goal of them.

When I walk into a courtroom, I feel like I'm home.

We need less politics in the courtroom, not more.

Judges can bring their own biases about sexuality in the courtroom, causing victims untold pain in the telling and retailing of their stories.

I can write dramas that are about inside and outside the courtroom.

I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.

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

That's the best way to practice law, is writing about it and not having to be in the courtroom!

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

I'll put it this way, there was no C.P. Kennedy, there was no Dwight Dickham, we never went in the courtroom. That was the script I got. The affliction that the judge is suffering from was completely different.

Keeping politics out of the courtroom is a goal every state aspires to achieve.

I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.

I liked to go to court. I became a lawyer because of the allure of the courtroom, not necessarily to be chained to an office desk.

As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don't recognize those notions, they're for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.

I have spent my entire life working to make my community and my country better. And I can't wait to get inside the courtroom to tell my story.

When we watch courtroom dramas, we tend to identify with the kindhearted defense attorney, but give us the power, and we become like hanging judges.

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

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

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

I love being in a courtroom.

Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene.

The flagrant disregard in the courtroom of elementary standards of proper conduct should not and cannot be tolerated.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

I really don't miss the trials and courtroom appearances.

I used to wear sneakers with those nice suits because I wanted Victor Sifuentes to have a bounce in the courtroom.

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

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

If I had a billion dollars, that's not going to keep me out of the courtroom.

Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.

I grew up in a courtroom kind of like the one you saw in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - big, big courtroom, sometimes it didn't even have air conditioning.

The world is a courtroom, but your life is the judge.

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.

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

The Courtroom is a battlefield, and oral argument requires a fair amount of verbal jousting and sparring with the Justices.