"The judge asks the child if she wants a short break, but the girl and the dog make for an amazing team, and the whole courtroom holds its breath as she speaks."
"I'm the judge in the matter. Shut your mouth and I'll tell you when you can talk. You got it?"
"This is the real Ms. Heard, the one in the audio recordings, not the one you saw in this courtroom."
"Maybe it wasn’t the best idea, but the lawyer took the judge at his word and they left the courtroom."
"Out of every single person in that courtroom, other than maybe people just wanted to come and watch the trial in the gallery, every single person in that courtroom is there because they have to be, because they are required to be."
"It is really difficult to, it's, I rarely see a witness, uh, crushed as hard as, you know, as Amber was."
"Finally she thought, everyone in the courtroom had heard the truth."
"The story is that they were in court and in cross-examination, and the defense asked the agent, 'Look at these messages.' It was all in front of everybody."
"Nobody in the courtroom, maybe even including me, wants the case resolved more than Judge Hall."
"He is ignorant and unsophisticated and he is not a good person to now have in a courtroom."
"Clients want their day in court and to get things off their chest."
"Juries like things like this, they like to see it, they like to feel it, they like to be there."
"I've had people stand up and speak for my clients at sentencing and the judge is moved to tears by it."
"It's literally like they're just playing a game with each other, and it's sparring, and it's like they can see sometimes sometimes the better attorney wins."
"The judge said something to the effect of, 'It's rare that you find a defendant that convicts himself by his own testimony, but that is what happened here.'"
"The defense counsel has been forced to divert their attention to ensure notes and other materials are hidden from prying eyes."
"The tapes were chilling and as those tapes were played, the courtroom was as silent as a cathedral."
"A judge can literally feel the confidence coming from certain people."
"He was displaying great sharp intellect and I actually thought he was the smartest guy in the room today."
"None of which was even discussed in court... he was unarmed."
"Let the defense conduct a cross-examination of the witnesses."
"If the prosecution gets a witness, the defense gets a witness."
"Every single time that Thomas Binger asked Kyle Rittenhouse about this, he sort of makes it appear that that was totally unreasonable."
"That's not in dispute, but trying to get him to say he wanted them to die, I mean what a swing in and miss."
"At the end of the day, it's whether the state has met its burden."
"Jurors are definitely not stupid... They're watching everything."
"The jury's gonna fail. I've never seen a jury feel sorry for a lawyer who's drowning at the hands of a judge."
"She saw what she saw, that's powerful stuff for the prosecution."
"It sounds like in the courtroom they were literally arguing."
"I don't think everything raised in the defendant's Motions demands an evidentiary hearing."
"The upcoming cross-examination for Mr. Depp's team will be the most telling and will certainly highlight the many fallacies Ms. Heard has now attempted to pass off as fact."
"It's gonna be really interesting to see how the courts rule."
"Jury's got eyes and ears, they're looking at this stuff themselves and trying to determine whether or not he's believable."
"You don't ever want to go to trial and put your life in 12 people's hands unless you're forced to."
"This closing argument was given six years to the day..."
"Closing arguments are undoubtedly my favorite part of a trial."
"In a courtroom where a lot is at stake, the Constitution comes to life."
"She was speaking up when a jail captain was at the podium, and it was even louder than you can hear on the video in the courtroom. It was clearly someone speaking out of turn, but it didn't faze her one bit."
"You might be king douche nozzle, but in court, you are little people." - Jimmy
"The fact that the judge is more angry at a defense attorney over talking him... tells me everything I need to know."
"You want that jury to look at you, the prosecutor, as the voice of reason, as an honest broker of the facts and the law."
"These fights, if you will, these mini-fights behind the litigation, really go to show what claimants, defendants, plaintiffs, defendants have to go through."
"I said where is the co-counsel? Why is he not joining in this motion? Well, the DA's kind of basically laid out for him. They say the potential for harm to Mr. Means' former client, Chad Day Bell, is high."
"In a court of law, the greatest weapon is your belief."
"That's somebody is going to control the courtroom and you want that person to be the judge."
"Cross-examination is where it's at; that's where you get to quickly shine or suck badly, all in real time."
"Having that perspective in the room... is a really critical perspective."
"We were constantly adapting, constantly adjusting to what was happening in the courtroom each day."