Top 37 Jury Trials Quotes
#1. Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
Clarence Darrow
#2. Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
Vincent Bugliosi
#3. I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. I still have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely to be found guilty, we should do our best not to, in positions of executive power, not to prejudge jury trials.
Howard Dean
#4. There was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by the advocates for a Bill of Rights and trial by jury.
George Washington
#5. It is a pity we do not die when our lives are finished.
Mary Borden
#6. Loyalty is that for the lack of which your gang will shoot you without benefit of trial by jury.
Robert Frost
#7. You never know with juries. I'd take a judge every time, unless of course I was guilty.
Kenneth Eade
#8. Trial by jury is a wise distribution of power which exceeds all other modes of trial.
Edward Coke
#9. The grand solid merit of jury trial is that the jurors ... are selected at the last moment from the multitude of citizens. They cannot be known beforehand, and they melt back into the multitiude after each trial.
John Henry Wigmore
#10. Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial.
Jerome Frank
#11. Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.
Thomas Jefferson
#12. A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost
#13. The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives.
Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin
#14. If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that, because the numbers do not lie.
Barry S. Strauss
#15. Emotions are reserved for juries and, in that case, a good lawyer can really lay them on when the time is right, better than the best Academy Award winning actor
Kenneth Eade
#16. It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood.
Domenico Dolce
#17. Let the people have property and they will have power - a power that will forever be exerted to prevent the restriction of the press, the abolition of trial by jury, or the abridgment of any other privilege.
Noah Webster
#19. The corporations don't like open courts of law, trials by jury. They want to privatize by pushing people into compulsory arbitration where they win most of the time and the whole process is pretty secret.
Ralph Nader
#20. Trial by jury in civil causes, ... trial by jury in criminal causes, [and] the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus ... all stand on the same footing; they are the common rights of Americans.
Richard Henry Lee
#21. A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result.
William James
#22. Life isn't about being perfect and sometimes life sure as hell isn't about having perfect timing. It just is. Either you embrace it or you lose your opportunity to what could be something amazing.
M. Clarke
#23. It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any evidence except that which the law allows.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#24. The idea that trials are a search for the truth is just a myth. Trials are a search for that which the jury will believe is the truth.
David Rosenfelt
#25. We cannot be judge and jury, the hardest thing is to understand the unknown and in knowing the hidden all things are revealed giving truth.
God is watcher during all moments and at the end the real Judge.
Zarina Bibi
#26. Trial by jury must and shall be preserved! Amidst the throng of crude sacrilegisms ... that assail us nowadays in the legal sanctuary, none is more shortsighted, none more dangerous, than the proposal to abolish trial by jury.
John Henry Wigmore
#27. You can use and see the power of words contributing towards your success, and this comes from having an empowering belief system. Living and functioning from an empowering belief system is the spring board for making your success more deliberate.
Archibald Marwizi
#28. The first question here, then, is not "What is best for my soul?" nor is it even "What is most useful to humanity?" But-transcending both these limited aims-what function must this life fulfill in the great and secret economy of God?
Evelyn Underhill
#29. Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!
Mark Twain
#30. Earlier today, the jury at the Martha Stewart trial reached a verdict. Martha was found guilty on all charges. In a related story, there's a huge sale at K-Mart.
Conan O'Brien
#31. Talent is everywhere, winning attitude is not.
Dan Gable
#32. Trial by jury must be preserved. It is the best system ever invented for a free people in the world's history.
John Henry Wigmore
#33. There was an interesting development in the CBS-Westmoreland trial:
both sides agreed that after the trial, Andy Rooney would be allowed to
talk to the jury for three minutes about little things that annoyed him
during the trial.
David Letterman
#34. I think that it is high time that we remembered that we have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution. I think that it is high time that we remembered that the Constitution, as amended, speaks not only of the freedom of speech but also of trial by jury instead of trial by accusation.
Margaret Chase Smith
#35. That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.
George Mason
#36. A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government.
Byron White
#37. Sometimes you had a better shot with a jury, that body of ones "peers" who make decisions with their emotional brains; especially if your client was guilty.
Kenneth Eade
