Reasonable Doubt Quotes

“It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”
― Voltaire, Zadig et autres contes

“I believe [...] that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Well, did he do it?"

She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant "did it" or not. What mattered was the evidence against him -- the proof -- and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt.”
― Michael Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer

“And can you please have the janitor check my floor for fucking superglue?” ~ Andrew Hamilton”
― Whitney Gracia Williams, Reasonable Doubt: Volume 1

“Nine of us now seem to feel that the defendant is innocent, but we're just gambling on probabilities. We may be wrong. We may be trying to return a guilty man to the community. No one can really know. But we have a reasonable doubt, and this is a safeguard that has enormous value in our system. No jury can declare a man guilty unless it's sure. We nine can't understand how you three are still so sure. Maybe you can tell us.”
― Reginald Rose, Twelve Angry Men

“As a society, we adhere to the belief in a fair trial for a person accused of a serious crime, but some of us struggle when it comes to the business of providing a competent lawyer to guarantee said fair trial. Lawyers like me live with the question “But how do you represent such scum?”

I offer a quick “Someone has to” as I walk away.

Do we really want fair trials? No, we do not. We want justice, and quickly. And justice is whatever we deem it to be on a case-by-case basis.

It’s just as well that we don’t believe in fair trials because we damned sure don’t have them. The presumption of innocence is now the presumption of guilt. The burden of proof is a travesty because the proof is often lies. Guilt beyond a reasonable doubt means if he probably did it, then let’s get him off the streets.”
― John Grisham, Rogue Lawyer

“As sure as this Earth is turnin, souls burnin / In search of higher learnin, turnin in every direction seeking direction / My moms cryin cause her insides are dyin / Her son tryin her patience, keep her heart racin / A million beats a minute, I know I push you to your limit / But it's this game, love—I'm caught up all in it / They make it so you can't prevent it, never give it / You gotta take it, can't fake it, I keep it authentic”
― Jay-Z

“Emotion is created by a cause, whether that cause is factual or imaginary does not matter, as longer as the believer holds it as true.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“I invested in a box of paper bags today." ~ Andrew Hamilton”
― Whitney Gracia Williams, Reasonable Doubt: Volume 1

“Reasonable doubt trumps everything.”
― Rebecca McNutt, Bittersweet Symphony

“Reason is not always reasonable”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“You can deal with an emotion based on reason, but who can control an unreasonable emotion?”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Play with reason and doubt will close all the gates”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“But in the absence of eye-witness there's always a doubt, sometimes only the shadow of a doubt. The law says 'reasonable doubt', but I think a defendant's entitled to the shadow of doubt. There's always the possibility, no matter how improbable, that he's innocent.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Don't you think something about her is different? More responsive, more open than she's ever been?"
"Ashna has always had too vulnerable a heart, Shobi. That's been the problem. She feels everyone's pain and internalizes it, and wants to take it away. I think the reason she's had such a hard time with you is that she didn't know what to do with yours. She finds your rage at the world too daunting. She blames herself for it.”
― Sonali Dev, Recipe for Persuasion

“Having a reason for those reasons can not be a reason for those reasons you are having for those reasons.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“You know, Brent, that every case is like a puzzle within a puzzle within another puzzle. Some pieces are always missing, and some never would fit no matter what. We call that police work.”
“We call it reasonable doubt.”
― Kenneth Eade, Absolute Intolerance

“Knock on the heart’s emotions and its gates will be widely opened, but nock on reason and doubt will come charging at you”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Always reason behind the reason even if we dont know what the reason, but it will soon become clear asto why the reason”
― cherubEagleEyes