{"quotes":[{"text":"It's kind of funny to me listening to people who claim to have these great records of winning a hundred and some odd straight felony cases without a loss and that kind of stuff that you hear of all the time. I'm here to tell you, if you let me pick out which hundred cases I get to try, I'll win a hundred of them in a row, too. Case selection is everything in creating records like that. My philosophy was, I tried them all. If I made a determination that the evidence was sufficient to justify the prosecution, then I would try the case, and certainly whenever you do that, you're going to lose a certain percentage of them.","author":"Mark Baker","tags":["district attorneys","law","lawyers","prosecutors","trials"],"id":13146,"author_id":"Mark+Baker"},{"text":"When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","advocate","advocates","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","client","clients","court","court-of-law","courts","deep","defendant","defendants","dictum","dictums","disprove","disproved","disproving","epigram","epigrams","gnome","gnomes","guilt","guilty","guilty-until-proven-innocent","humor","humour","innocence","innocent","innocent-until-proven-guilty","insightful","judge","judges","jury","law","lawyer","lawyers","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","plaintiff","plaintiffs","presumption-of-guilt","profound","prosecute","prosecutor","prosecutors","prove","proved","proven","proverb","proverbs","proving","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","role","roles","satire","satirical","save","save-time","saying","sayings","the-law","thought-provoking","thoughtful","time","waste-of-time","waste-time"],"id":77808,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":2,"pages":1}}