The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We're lawyers. We present the arguments, and the court sorts out the merits.
Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
I'm an old trial lawyer.
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.
Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges.
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
One of the risks of a public trial is a public verdict.
The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday.
The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases.