Quotes on Acquittal

Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.

For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must be the general law; the minor, the action that conforms or does not conform to the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punishment. If the judge were constrained, or if he desired to frame even a single additional syllogism, the door would thereby be opened to uncertainty.