Some cases are lost simply because it never occurs to the district attorney that the accused will deny something which the State has twenty witnesses to prove.

The twenty witnesses are, therefore, not summoned on the day of trial, the defendant does deny it, and as it is a case of word against word the accused gets the benefit of the doubt and, perhaps, is acquitted.
No case is properly prepared unless there is in the court-room every witness who knows anything about any aspect of the case.

No one can foretell when the unimportant will become the vital.

Most cases turn on an unconsidered point.

A prosecutor once lost what seemed to him the clearest sort of a case.