Kevin Barry

In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the courthouse there. One day, an old detective sergeant came and whispered to me in the press pit. He pointed out a young offender, a teenager who was up for stealing a car or something relatively minor, and said, 'See this kid? He'll kill.

Irish Author

Lawrence O'Donnell

Around the courthouse when defense lawyers are chatting about their cases, the only question they ask each other is can you put your guy on the stand? Those conversations always assume the defendant is guilty. The question is just about the degree of difficulty in presenting a defense.

American Journalist

Elmore Leonard

When I get an idea for a book, something appeals to me, it's usually a character. I'll see a picture of a female marshal in front of the courthouse in Miami and she's got a shotgun on her hip and it goes up on an angle. And she's good-looking. And I say, 'I've got to use her.

American Novelist

Joe Jamail

I love the system. Let me tell you why. People love it... The people, by and large, have great respect for our law and our system... Why do you think they go to that courthouse instead of killing each other in the streets, taking the law into their own hands?

American Businessman

Medgar Evers

First it was the whites, and then their Negro message bearers. And the word was always the same: 'Tell your sons to take their names off the books. Don't show up at the courthouse voting day.

American Activist

Sherman Austin

About five, six FBI agents walked into the courthouse and arrested me. They said I was being arrested for distribution of information related to explosives over the Internet.

Asa Hutchinson

This is a true story. The day after Reagan won, I was walking into the courthouse when someone said that they'd bet Reagan would appoint me U.S. attorney.

American Lawyer

Logic

I'm the kind of guy who'll go to a courthouse and get married, but for women, it's different. It means a lot to them.

American Musician

Thurgood Marshall

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.

American Judge

Kim Reynolds

My journey started in the courthouse and went to the statehouse.

American Politician

Courthouses are central to legal systems, where judgements and laws are enforced.

Legal Importance

Most courthouses are open to the public for observation of legal proceedings.

Public Access

Courthouses often symbolize fairness and justice in society.

Symbol of Justice

 in my car and I went to this courthouse and was sitting what this is gonna be so difficult so so painful I finally got out of the car and I started walking up to the courthouse and as I was walking up the steps of this courthouse there was an older black man who was the janitor in this courthouse when this man saw me he came over to me and he said

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 and they impute that respect to themselves. You see, that's what the transgender prostitute was telling me. I'm judging you just as much as you think you may be judging me. Now, I am not telling you what I think, I am telling you what I have lived, using procedural justice to change the culture at my courthouse

How judges can show...

 decades of terrorism and violence and the lynching that we are trying to memorialize terrorize people of color in this community we've never talked about thousands of people pulled into the courthouse square sometimes brutalized burned alive the demographic geography of this nation was shaped by terrorism

The urgent need for...

 action a group of armed african-american world war one vets drive down to the courthouse that night and tell the sheriff they want to defend the courthouse the sheriff tells them to leave as they're leaving an elderly white man went up to a tall black vet and said where are you going with that gun

A Reckoning in Tulsa PIPE...

 and this implicates every one of us. So what you need to do, is as I said, you need to get educated, you also need to get proximate to this. And by getting proximate, I mean you need to go and see how our criminal legal system operates. That may mean go to a local criminal courthouse,

The US is addicted to...

 He once said that he laughed so he did not cry, that a good story, for him, was better than a drop of whiskey. His storytelling powers had first been recognized when he was on the circuit in Illinois. The lawyers and the judges would travel from one county courthouse to the other,

Doris Kearns Goodwin:...

 and then that led us to, kind of, the very differences of our worlds from a legal and an artistic, architectural. And it forced us to talk about notions of how we work, and the dynamics of that, and what other sources of the work is. And it led us to the project, the courthouse,

Thom Mayne: Architecture...

 I do not believe that I'm going to be in prison for the rest of my life I believe that I've got enough in me to be one of those guys you see walking out of the courthouse you know on TV on the news after such

Veteran Behind Bars PIPE...

 it was apparent that he was deeply saddened by what we were required to do. He relived the day that he left the courthouse and he drove home and he went to put his key in his door and unlock it,

A juror's reflections on...

 You're looking at a woman who spent 11 months in court, thirteen trips to the courthouse and thousands of dollars in legal fees, just to get two a protection from cyberstalking and cyberabuse,