#verdict

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate. ↗

— Georges Duhamel

#beds #every #fate #men #piety

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#blow #both #cause #character #commonly

And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there. ↗

— Lance Ito

#american #american public #being #definite #how

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted. ↗

— Juvenal

#first #guilty #heart #his #man

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. ↗

— Voltaire

#guilt #innocence #judgment #justice #mercy