Court Of Law Quotes (9 quotes)

“One of the most common and most dangerous misbeliefs is that it is impossible for someone to be stupid just because they are a doctor or a lawyer.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Life is so fragile and unpredictable, especially when you are in a gang or in a life of crime. It’s like playing poker; you think to yourself that you have a good hand. However, it is only when you reveal your hand do you sometimes discover to your horror that someone else’s hand is better.”
― Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father

tags: a-life-of-crime, consequences, court-of-law, criminals, fragile, gang-members, horror, poker, poker-players, prison, prison-inmates, prison-sentence, street-killings, street-life, thug-life, unpredictable

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“When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they are accused of).”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: accusation, accuse, accused, beautiful, beauty, character, conviction, court, court-of-law, deceive, deception, good, guilt, guilty, incarcerate, incarceration, innocence, innocent, jail, law, looks, looks-can-be-deceiving, person, personality, presumption-of-innocence, prison, sentence, ugliness, ugly

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“A court case is usually a competition to prove the innocence of the innocent … or the guilty.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: court-of-law, defendant, guilty, injustice, innocent, judge, justice, law, lawyer, plaintiff

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“The Law court is not a place for fairness. It is merely a place where good lawyers are separated from the bad ones, and the great ones from the good ones.”
― Zain Abdul Nassir

tags: court-of-law, deep-thoughts, lawyers

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“A SPORTSMAN DOESN'T FIGHT HE WILL SEE YOU IN THE COURT”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

tags: court, court-of-law, fight, fighting-spirit, law, sports, sports-inspirational, sports-quotes, sportsmanship

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“The number of criminals is at least a thousand times more than our highest estimate.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: corruption, court-of-law, crime, criminal, criminals, democracy, fraud, law, politics, presumption-of-innocence

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“Gowachin Law made a special distinction between prejudgment and bias.
McKie considered this.
The interpretation of bias was: “If I can rule for a particular side I will do so.”
For prejudgment: “No matter what happens in the arena I will rule for a particular side.”
Bias was permitted, but not prejudgment.”
― Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment

tags: bias, court-of-law, prejudgment

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