‘Jolly LLB’ is one of my favorite movies. Courtroom films are rare to come by in Telugu.
It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.
Well, honestly, I’m not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.
I grew up on courtroom dramas, and I really love the feel of a dramatic thriller.
I had never attended a trial until my daughter’s murder trial. What I witnessed in that courtroom enraged and redirected me.
We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
I can write dramas that are about inside and outside the courtroom.
When I did counterintelligence investigations, they rarely saw the inside of a courtroom. That wasn’t the goal of them.
I was not aware of a ton of the stuff that was being said about me out in the world since I wasn’t able to get British or American headlines from my prison cell in Perugia. But I was aware that in the courtroom, I was being called a succubus, a man-eater, ‘Foxy Knoxy.’
Jurors want courtroom lawyers to have some compassion and be nice.
The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.
Whether you watch ‘Law and Order’ all the time or not, everyone knows what it looks like. Everyone knows what the courtroom looks like, what the police precinct looks like.
When I was a practising lawyer in the family court, there were too many judges who, when you left their courtroom, you didn’t know whether you’d won or whether you’d lost.
I had never written anything. And I had never studied writing. So my motives were pure: I had a great story… a courtroom drama that I sort of fictionalized, and that became ‘A Time to Kill.’
Keeping politics out of the courtroom is a goal every state aspires to achieve.
I agree with Scott Turow: A courtroom is inherently dramatic. You walk into court – it’s like an ER, you know? Life and death is going on there. And it’s moment-by-moment, and it’s packed with energy. And even though you think you know what a witness is going to say, you can be wrong. Witnesses surprise you.
I have had positive experiences with cameras. When I have been asked to join experiments using cameras in the courtroom, I have participated; I have volunteered.
When Orson Welles was acting in ‘Compulsion,’ the director Richard Fleischer let him just take over and direct the courtroom scenes. To be able to see Welles – who knew more about directing than anyone – direct himself and the other actors, it was unbelievable and unforgettable.
When I walk into a courtroom, I feel like I’m home.
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
It’s always been my dream to be an attorney, and I’m that weird breed of human being that loves being in a courtroom.
When we watch courtroom dramas, we tend to identify with the kindhearted defense attorney, but give us the power, and we become like hanging judges.
Our religious liberty was threatened by the Obama administration as part of the Obamacare law. I was in the courtroom when that law was, I think unjustly, held constitutional.
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