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“Poverty often puts some people below the law.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It was a good strategy but this is where I intended to turn her plans upside-down. In the courtroom there are three things for the lawyer to always consider: the knowns, the known unknowns and the unknown unknowns. Whether at the prosecution or defense table, it is the lawyer’s job to master the first two and always be prepared for the third.”
― Michael Connelly, The Fifth Witness

“Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live. Where was the judge he had never seen? Where was the High Court he had never reached? He raised his hands and spread out all his fingers. But the hands of one of the men closed round his throat, just as the other drove the knife deep into his heart and turned it twice.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“Either you break the law, or the law breaks you.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“There is no playacting in this court. If you stay your hand, they will cut it off.”
― Nenia Campbell, Dragon Queen

“I have no faith in the police, the courts or the corporate government.”
― Steven Magee

“The social function of court life is to enlist the support and adherence of the public for the ruling house. The Renaissance princes want to delude not only the people, they also want to make an impression o the nobility and bind it to the court. But they are not dependent on either its services or its company; they can use anyone, of whatever descent, provided he is useful. Consequently, the Italian courts of Renaissance differ from the medieval courts in their very constitution; they accept into their circle upstart adventurers and merchants who have made money, plebeian humanists and ill-bred artists - entirely as if they had all the traditional social qualifications. In contrast to the exclusive moral community of court chivalry, a comparatively free, fundamentally intellectual type of salon life develops at these courts which is, on the one hand the continuation of the aesthetic social culture of middle-class circles, such as described in the Decamerone and in the Paradiso degli Alberti, and represents, on the other, the preparatory stage in the development of those literary salons which play such an important part in the intellectual life of Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.”
― Arnold Hauser, The Social History of Art: Volume 2: Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque

“You will not see what you do not look for maggot”
― Stephen King

“I wanted to explain that Chanel’s social life was healthy and well populated, but it was lonely being Emily Doe, my world much smaller, a shrunken circle of confidants. I wondered how it happened that I was now spending more time with my rapist than my friends.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name

“For a moment our eyes meet, but we exchange nothing except a grim determination to get this parting over, to get this exile underway, to keep this precious boy safe. I suppose that Jasper is the only man that I have loved, perhaps he is the only man that I will ever love. But there has never been time for words of love between us, we have spent most of our time saying goodbye.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Red Queen

“A late justice is a lame justice.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“বাংলাদেশের কোর্টগুলোত�� আসাম�� �� সাক্ষীদেরক�� জেরা�� সম�� কাঠগড়া�� ভেতর�� চেয়া�� রাখা উচিত যে�� তারা বস�� তাদে�� বক্তব্�� দিতে পারে��!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“There should be chairs inside the witness boxes in the Bangladeshi courts so that the accused and the witnesses can sit and answer the questions asked by the lawyers!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“the law is neither deaf nor blind”
― Sonia Sahijwani, Yours Legally

“tujhe toh vakil banna chahiye, bas behes karti rehti hai”
― SONIA SAHIJWANI

“The word “Regular List�� was not be taken on face value”
― SONIA SAHIJWANI, Yours Legally

“He was a man with a vision- and an extraordinary vision it was..”
― SONIA SAHIJWANI, Yours Legally

“People wanted to meet celebrities, all Sia wanted and wished for is to somehow get to meet a criminal”
― SONIA SAHIJWANI, Yours Legally

“It was going to be a like a face off; though just one of those of a criminal kind”
― SONIA SAHIJWANI, Yours Legally

“Such was the law of the land and of God and one had to pay for his sins in this form itself, in this life itself”
― SONIA SAHIJWANI, Yours Legally

“For, change was and is the only constant in life.”
― SONIA SAHIJWANI, Yours Legally

“No one knows the law rules the court, or the court rules the law; however, in such a situation, justice becomes raped, and the victim of that.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“She was back. Even so, Will didn't move. He would wait her out, fake-relaxing in the uncomfortable chair with his head not against the wall, tapping his hands to Bureaucratic Barbara's brainwashing beat as an act of solidarity with every other man she'd tried to enervate with her bell and refusal to offer change.

[inner dialog of Will Phillips]”
― Will Willingham, Adjustments

“My disability judge brought an expert witness to the court that clearly stated under oath that there was no job that I could do in the national economy. As such, I was very surprised to be denied my disability benefits.”
― Steven Magee

“To protect the child, the court can issue temporary orders placing the child in shelter care-LEARN HOW THE CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM WORKS, Author, V J SMITH, BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOKS”
― V J Smith, THE BEST CRAFTS FOR TOTS BOOK

“a day sitting at a dock is not the same as a day sitting in a dock in court.
taking charge is not the same as being charged in court.
receiving a grade is not the same as receiving a judgment in court.
having a winning ticket in a raffle is not the same as a having a ticket in traffic court
being called to the bar IS the same as being called to a bar in a club �� both events are for joyous celebration!!”
― Nicole Hassell

“It's kind of funny to me listening to people who claim to have these great records of winning a hundred and some odd straight felony cases without a loss and that kind of stuff that you hear all the time. I'm here to tell you, if you let me pick out which hundred cases I get to try, I'll win a hundred of them in a row, too. Case selection is everything in creating records like that. My philosophy was, I tried them all. If I made a determination that the evidence was sufficient to justify the prosecution, then I would try the case, and certainly whenever you do that, you're going to lose a certain percentage of them.”
― Mark Baker

“My workday begins at eight-thirty a.m.
Turn on computer, get coffee, log on to JEMS.
Read my emails, and respond to some.
Turn on the radio, and begin to hum��
…to the Captain on Ocean 89
Any type of music soothes this my mind.
By 9am the Magistrates begin to come
Wor. Wolffe, Warner, Tokunbo, Chin and Anderson��
…ready to give fairness, decisions, reasons and some.
I then go thru my spreadsheet of outstanding Appeals
My job to prepare them is quite a big deal.
Appeals are then sent to Chief Justice Kawaley.
Each case is met with consideration and commentary.
By 10am I attend to Plea Court
New cases range from speeders, DUI’s and all sorts��
Defendants are called by name, charges read out and defined
“Not guilty�� or “guilty”…”just give me my fine”��
…then 10 minutes later Bernews reports cases online.
Never 2 days the same, in the lower Courts.
I don’t complain, I enjoy it, I’m there to support.
16 years in total in this line of work��
I love my job as a Magistrates�� Court Clerk!! ❤️”
― Nicole Hassell

“Being questioned by the defense was stifling. He didn’t want to open up the emotional territory that she (the DA) did; he wanted to smother it, to erase my specific experience, abstract me into stereotypes of partying and blackouts, to ask technical questions that tied my shoelaces together, tripping me as he forced me to run.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name

“The judge presented in a court takes everything seriously, but nothing personal.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo, Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism