Top 56 Quotes About Juries
#1. Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice.
Pat Roberts
#2. The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.
Thomas Jefferson
#3. You never know with juries. I'd take a judge every time, unless of course I was guilty.
Kenneth Eade
#4. Believe it or not, there are people who want to be on juries.
Nancy Grace
#5. Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.
Oscar Wilde
#6. We generally get the juries we deserve.
Harper Lee
#7. I've served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way.
Simon Hoggart
#8. Putting pressure on grand juries to indict in my view is un-American. A grand jury should be allowed to be fair and impartial. They shouldn't have people yelling and screaming.
Rudy Giuliani
#9. I am sure from my experience of juries that, in a criminal case especially, they will obey the law as declared by the Judge; they will take the law from the Judge, whether they like it or do not like it, and apply it honestly to the facts before them.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#10. Drink a health to the wonders of the western world, the pirates, preachers, poteen-makers, with the jobbing jockies; parching peelers, and the juries fill their stomachs selling judgments of the English law.
John Millington Synge
#11. Authoritative interpretations of the First Amendment guarantees have consistently refused to recognize an exception for any test of truth whether administered by judges, juries, or administrative officials and especially one that puts the burden of proving truth on the speaker.
William J. Brennan
#12. The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
Clarence Darrow
#13. 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
#14. Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day.
Johnnie Cochran
#15. As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system
the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges
would take care of that; they didn't need his help.
Scott Turow
#16. Those who serve upon our juries have maintained a standard of fairness and excellence and demonstrated a vision toward the administration of justice that is a wellspring of inspiration.
Earl Warren
#17. It has long been noticed that juries are pitiless for robbery and full of indulgence for infanticide. A question of interest, my dear Sir! The jury is afraid of being robbed and has passed the age when it could be a victim of infanticide.
Edmond Francois Valentin About
#18. There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true.
Matt Taibbi
#19. Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
Vincent Bugliosi
#20. Had the jury convicted on proper instructions it would be the end of the matter. But juries are not bound by what seems inescapable logic to judges.
Robert H. Jackson
#21. Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for its correction not on the conscience of judges and juries but on the competition of other ideas.
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
#22. We trust people's lives to randomly selected juries as the only fair method; should we use any less fair method for a nation or a planet?
Peter J. Carroll
#23. ( ... ) juries should ask not "Is he guilty?" but rather "Is he dangerous?
Julian Barnes
#24. If I had killed somebody, it wouldn't have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But f-ing, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to f- young girls. Juries want to f- young girls. Everyone wants to f- young girls!
Roman Polanski
#25. The kind of evidence that was put before the jurors led to less-than-rational decision-making. I think that juries are composed of good people who can be misled.
Kenneth C. Frazier
#26. [It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
Thurgood Marshall
#27. Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Thomas Jefferson
#28. Juries are not computers. They are composed of human beings who evaluate evidence differently.
Alan Dershowitz
#29. I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.
Rick Moody
#30. Women should not be allowed on juries where the accused is a stud.
Rush Limbaugh
#31. Interviews, and hence interviewers, are there to help shed light, and to let viewers judge for themselves. We are not judges, juries, commentators or torturers - nor friends, either.
Andrew Marr
#32. Juries must, of necessity, be governed, in reaching many results through inferences from other facts, by certain laws of nature and human reason. They are often obliged to infer one thing from another, and this, whether that other be a fact direct or circumstantial.
Levi Woodbury
#33. From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.
Harper Lee
#34. Jews can't serve on juries because they insist they're guilty.
Cathy Ladman
#35. All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#36. I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.
Nancy Grace
#37. When I'm walking around, I'm sometimes just perplexed at people who seem like everyday people, people who are on juries, who are in the police force, who are in control of my life in many ways.
Parul Sehgal
#38. But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an accused person, even as to matters of fact; for, if the government can dictate to a jury any law whatever, in a criminal case, it can certainly dictate to them the laws of evidence.
Lysander Spooner
#39. Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.
Tammy Faye Bakker
#40. Studying the rule of law won't make a great litigator. It is the act of trying cases in real courtrooms with real plaintiffs and defendants and judges and juries, week after week and year after year that develops lawyers into top trial attorneys.
Marian Deegan
#41. The idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges, or hereditary juries; and as absurd as an hereditary mathematician, or an hereditary wise man; and as ridiculous as an hereditary poet-laureat.
Thomas Paine
#42. It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives.
William Lacy Clay Jr.
#43. I stopped trying to figure out American juries around the same time Adam Sandler movies started raking in millions at the box office
people just don't act predictably.
Jodi Picoult
#45. I proved him a liar but John made him look like a fool. All the time Ewell was on the stand I couldn't dare look at John and keep a straight face. John looked at him as if he were a three-legged chicken or a square egg. Don't tell me judges don't try to prejudice juries.
Harper Lee
#46. In 1985, in Batson v. Kentucky, the Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits prosecutors from discriminating on the basis of race when selecting juries, a ruling hailed as an important safeguard against all-white juries locking up African Americans based on racial biases and stereotypes.
Michelle Alexander
#47. 'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar to readers.
Patrick DeWitt
#48. If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature.
Charles B. Rangel
#49. The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.
Robert Henri
#50. I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things.
Patricia Highsmith
#51. [When asked: "If women voted, would they not have to sit on juries?":] Many women would be glad of a chance to sit on anything. There are women who stand up and wash six days in the week at 75 cents a day who would like to take a vacation and sit on a jury at $1.50.
Anna Howard Shaw
#52. I pretended I had urgent business at the prosecutor's table which, in one of The System's obvious tells, was always millimeters from the jury box.
Sergio De La Pava
#53. 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
#54. It was ridiculous to think that twelve people could turn off' all their biases and prejudices and make a logical decision based on the evidence they were allowed to hear in the trial.
Kenneth Eade
#55. Now they will go back to their lives. Some will curse us, some will look forward to serve, and others will look to us for entertainment. We will not disappoint any of them, Brent. They don't need us, but we surely need them.
Kenneth Eade
#56. Even though the Judge would charge the jury that they should listen to all the evidence before they made up their minds, the chances were likely that 100% of them will have already decided if William was guilty or not before the trial was over.
Kenneth Eade
