Quotes About Defense Attorneys

Enjoy reading and share 13 famous quotes about Defense Attorneys with everyone.

“The courtroom oath "to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" is applicable only to witnesses. Defense attorneys, prosecutors, and judges dont take this oath they couldnt! Indeed, it is fair to say the American justice system is built on the foundation of not telling the whole truth. It is the job of the defense attorney especially when representing the guilty to prevent, by all lawful means, the "whole truth" from coming out.”
— Jon Krakauer —

“You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a courageous decision that's unpopular.”

— Anthony Kennedy

“Surely I missed the Bloodsucking Your Client class in law school, since all evidence points to me being the poster boy for Financially Ruined Defense Attorneys.”

— Jodi Picoult

“I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.”

— Matthew McConaughey

“The courtroom oath
"to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth"
is applicable only to witnesses. Defense attorneys, prosecutors, and judges don't take this oath
they couldn't! Indeed, it is fair to say the American justice system is built on the foundation of not telling the whole truth. It is the job of the defense attorney
especially when representing the guilty
to prevent, by all lawful means, the "whole truth" from coming out.”

— Jon Krakauer

“There was polite laughter in the courtroom. Bosch noticed that the attorneys
prosecution and defense
dutifully joined in, a couple of them overdoing it. It had been his experience that while in open court a judge could not possibly tell a joke that the lawyers did not laugh at.”

— Michael Connelly

“One of the most fundamental questions people have about defense attorneys is, 'How can you do that? How can you go to bat everyday for a person that you may not know is guilty but you have a pretty good idea that he's not so innocent?' It's a question that defense attorneys answer for themselves by not addressing.”

— David E. Kelley