Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.
All decisions in the criminal justice system must be determined by the physical and scientific evidence, and the credible testimony corroborated by that evidence, not in response to public outcry.
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
The grand jury's job is not to weigh the evidence from both sides; it is only to decide whether there is enough evidence on one side to bring a person to trial.
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Let's judge a man on what he's done.
I accept the verdict of the people.
The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it easy to describe the process which he had followed a thousand times and more. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.