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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6e6f9fa | How often would I have the chance to see a pretty girl bathing? I could recall no specific prohibition from the church or the Scriptures, though I knew it was wrong. But maybe it wasn't terribly sinful. | John Grisham | ||
| 11a1be1 | I wished i were seven feet tall. I'd hop up there and attack ol' Samson while the crowd went wild. I'd whip him good, send him flying, and become the biggest hero in Black Oak. But, for now, I could only boo him. | John Grisham | ||
| b85fde1 | One good thing about jail is that it allows you to think a lot. | John Grisham | ||
| b641bbc | Guilt beyond a reasonable doubt means if he probably did it, then let's get him off the streets. | John Grisham | ||
| f1e648e | When you wake up tomorrow, another day is behind you. The days add up; the weeks run together; the months become years. | John Grisham | ||
| d8629e3 | I was guilty all right. Guilty of stupidity for allowing myself to fall into such a mess. | John Grisham | ||
| dcd85e2 | If a prosecutor gets caught cheating, he either gets reelected or elevated to the bench. Our system never holds a bad prosecutor accountable. | John Grisham | ||
| e5d5663 | And it's often the one you trust the most who'll cut your throat for the right price. | John Grisham | ||
| 9d35cd1 | John Grisham exhaled, feeling his breath leave his body as he did, like his wife's yoga instructor had taught him to do that one time. He never went back to that yoga instructor, but he still thought about that session sometimes. | B.J. Novak | ||
| 1c5041a | Sadly, dissent nowadays is considered unpatriotic, and in our post-9/11 atmosphere any criticism of those in uniform, any uniform, is stifled. Being labeled soft on crime or soft on terror is a politician's curse. | John Grisham | ||
| f17267b | He hadn't hit her in several years, but when you've been beaten you never forget it. The bruises go away but the scars remain, deep, hidden, raw. You stay beaten. It takes a real coward to beat a woman. | John Grisham | ||
| b1b31d4 | Relief, fear, and humiliation. Her parents paid for a pricey prep school education in D.C. She graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown with a degree in political science. She breezed through law school and finished with honors. A dozen megafirms offered her jobs after a federal court clerkship. The first twenty-nine years of her life had seen overwhelming success and little failure. To be discharged in such a manner was crushing. To be es.. | John Grisham | ||
| 5c92d15 | These are mistakes, not regrets. Regrets are over and done with and a waste of time to rehash. Mistakes, though, are bad moves in the past that might affect the future. | John Grisham | ||
| 6c4cf22 | Once you've seen a pretty girl naked, you feel a certain attachment to her. | John Grisham | ||
| 93b4345 | Did you know that some of the counties in the coalfields have the highest rates of cancer in the country? | John Grisham | ||
| c58b544 | litigation funders are private companies that raise money from their investors to buy into big lawsuits. | John Grisham | ||
| cc750a7 | Don't ever get involved in politics, Theo. It's a dirty game. | John Grisham | ||
| 92c1e52 | You know, I have a very bad reputation. | John Grisham | ||
| 71f5cc6 | I can feel the competition here, very much like the first few weeks of law school when we were terribly concerned with each other's initial progress. I nod at a few acquaintances, silently hoping they flunk the exam because they're silently hoping I Collapse too. Such is the nature of the profession. | John Grisham | ||
| 54d6813 | In the United States we spend $40,000 a year to incarcerate each prison inmate and $8,000 to educate each elementary school student. | John Grisham | ||
| 74a4c54 | I was hurting, too. How could she have done such a terrible thing? She was my friend. She treated me like a confidant, and she protected me like a big sister. I loved Tally, and now she had run off with a vicious killer. | John Grisham | ||
| e2a7938 | Jake | John Grisham | ||
| 952029e | As in any war, the truth is the first casualty. I | John Grisham | ||
| 4a1ba77 | 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a case known as Bishop v. United States, ruled that the conviction of a mentally incompetent person was a denial of due process. Where doubt exists as to a person's mental competency, the failure to conduct a proper inquiry is a deprivation of his constitutional rights. | John Grisham | ||
| 987902b | before a jury. It takes time: time to | John Grisham | ||
| 4f7cdc1 | This was Mississippi, where for years whites shot blacks for any reason or no reason and no one cared; where whites raped blacks and it was considered sport; where blacks were hanged for fighting back. | John Grisham | ||
| 4781188 | You look at the crime and you look at the criminal. If it's a dope dealer who guns down an undercover narcotics officer, then he gets the gas. If it's a drifter who rapes a three-year-old girl, drowns her by holding her little head in a mudhole, then throws her body off a bridge, then you take his life and thank god he's gone. If it's an escaped convict who breaks into a farmhouse late at night and beats and tortures an elderly couple befor.. | John Grisham | ||
| 5336766 | Black lung is a legal term for a preventable, occupational lung disease. It is more formally known as coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP), and is caused by prolonged exposure to coal dust. Once coal dust is inhaled into the body it cannot be removed or discharged. It progressively builds up in the lungs and can lead to inflammation, fibrosis, even necrosis. There are two forms of the disease: "simple CWP" and "complicated CWP" (or progressiv.. | John Grisham | ||
| ef3b7d1 | And every defendant, regardless of how despicable the person or his crime, is entitled to a lawyer. Most laymen don't understand this and don't care. I don't care either. This is my job. | John Grisham | ||
| 64b8893 | But you worship money, Nate. You're part of a culture where everything is measured by money. It's a religion. | money religion worship | John Grisham | |
| 921ba37 | Theo explained, in what he thought was perfect Spanish, that Julio needed extra help with his algebra. Evidently, she did not understand perfect Spanish because she asked Julio what Theo was talking about. | John Grisham | ||
| 993d83c | Some of our clients have not been saints, but no lawyer can dictate morals to his client. | John Grisham | ||
| 5b3ef72 | 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. | John Grisham | ||
| 6dabdb1 | In Ake v. Oklahoma, the Court said: "When a State brings its judicial power to bear on an indigent defendant in a criminal proceeding, it must take steps to assure that the defendant has a fair opportunity to present his defense.... Justice cannot be equal where, simply as a result of his poverty, a defendant is denied the opportunity to participate meaningfully in a judicial proceeding in which his liberty is at stake." | John Grisham | ||
| c66d321 | 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.. | law lawyer presumption-of-innocence reasonable-doubt trial | John Grisham | |
| e4cb7d5 | The prosecution was forced into the bizarre position of admitting Ward and Fontenot were lying while asking the jurors to believe them | John Grisham | ||
| 14ce2fe | If the cops can't convict with evidence, they use the media to convict with suspicion. | John Grisham | ||
| cae4027 | 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 | ||
| 1f5cb50 | deal with self-righteous prosecutors who lie, cheat, stonewall, cover up, ignore ethics, and do whatever it takes to get a conviction, even when they know the truth and the truth tells them they are wrong. | John Grisham | ||
| 4815eeb | the eight warrior cops and their chief are terminated before the civil trial, they would likely become hostile witnesses against the City. | John Grisham | ||
| 4e6b78b | Since 1990, Oklahoma has executed more convicts on a per capita basis than any other state. No place, not even Texas, comes close. | John Grisham | ||
| 77852c3 | Rich folks can tolerate almost anything, but not rejection. | John Grisham | ||
| 2844034 | Golf Club description:] Once it had enough members to sustain itself, it began the obligatory practice of excluding others. | John Grisham | ||
| a55a489 | Mrs. Roosevelt felt, was the fault of society; "a civilization which does not provide young people with a way to earn a living is pretty poor," | Robert A. Caro |