Top 100 Quotes About The Jury
#1. All the ingenuity, all the high-tech gear, all the jury-rigging sometimes the sea would rip it all away until there was only you, the Creator, and His mercy.
Abby Sunderland
#2. Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter.
Abraham Lincoln
#3. The grand jury's job is not to weigh the evidence from both sides; it is only to decide whether there is enough evidence on one side to bring a person to trial.
Donella Meadows
#4. Warmth rushes through me because Kismet always prevails.
The jury has decided. I feel it in my bones.
Courtney Cole
#5. A jury of inquest was impaneled, and after due deliberation and inquiry they returned the inevitable American verdict which has been so familiar to our ears all the days of our lives - "NOBODY TO BLAME.
Mark Twain
#6. While the prosecution has said this is about the defendants lies, one worries that those lies already have been buried under too much discussion of technical issues. The jury may be lost already.
David Berg
#7. The police were also ready with more formidable tools of intimidation. The office also assigned a veteran homicide prosecutor to oversee the investigation. All this activity sent a signal to Condit. If he didn't play ball, he might find himself called to testify before a grand jury under oath.
Wolf Blitzer
#8. When the grand twelve million jury of our sins and sinful fury, 'Gainst our souls black verdicts give, Christ pleads his death, and then we live. Be thou my speaker, taintless pleader, unblotted lawyer, true proceeder.
Walter Raleigh
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. The 5th Amendment guarantees that defendants can't face 'double jeopardy,' which means the government can't prosecute a person a second time for the same crime if the jury returns a verdict. Only if the jury doesn't reach a decision can prosecutors elect to retry the case.
Robert Shapiro
#12. All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four years in jail as a result. But I think the most serious injustice perpetrated by the court system in America is the inability of a black man to get a jury of his peers.
Bobby Seale
#13. Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
Clarence Darrow
#15. It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
Joseph Brodsky
#16. I think right now the jury is out on where and how much profit is available in the consumer electronics industry, because if you look at the current consumer electronics players, the biggest ones on the planet struggle to make profit consistently.
Kevin Rollins
#17. I suffer mornings most of all
I feel so powerless and small
By ten o'clock I'm back in bed
Fighting the jury in my head
Amanda Palmer
#18. A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
Frederick Douglass
#19. Your customers are the judge, jury, and executioner of your value proposition. They will be merciless if you don't find fit!
Alexander Osterwalder
#20. If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.
Lysander Spooner
#21. Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.
Sarah Vowell
#22. The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be heany colour of the rainbow, but people have way to carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
Harper Lee
#23. 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
#24. The buffalo beauty contest ultimately
Is the judgement of the buffaloes on beauty
As well as the judgment of the jury
If they are as smart as the buffaloes.
(Honor of grassland)
Siwakarn Patoommasoot
#25. Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of counsel!
David Josiah Brewer
#26. A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor.
Donella Meadows
#27. The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.
Joni Mitchell
#28. The Jury had each formed a different view
Long before the indictment was read
And they all spoke at once so that none of them knew
One word that the other had said
Lewis Carroll
#29. And supposing the Coroner's jury returns a verdict of Wilful Murder against Alfred Inglethorp. What becomes of your theories, then?"
"They would not be shaken because twelve stupid men had happened to make a mistake!
Agatha Christie
#30. I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in chains. Women caged in cells. But we're the terrorists. It just doesn't make sense.
Assata Shakur
#31. fucking prosecutor put a sleeper on the jury." I thought a moment about telling him but decided against it. "At the moment it's better if I don't tell
Michael Connelly
#32. The world is not a courtroom There is no judge no jury no plaintiff. This is a caravan filled with eccentric beings telling wondrous stories about God.
Saadi
#33. The first thought that occurred to me, that night when I heard the chairman of the jury announce my name, was, Just think how many people hate me at this moment. Naturally, I wanted to annoy those people even further by being arrogant.
John Banville
#34. Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.
Liam Neeson
#35. I've never been one to take glee in anyone's demise, and when I saw Jerry Sandusky walk out in handcuffs, I did kind of feel a bit sorry for him, even though the jury found him to do some horrific things; I was like, 'His life is over.'
Don Lemon
#36. A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
#37. When the English adopted the institution of the jury, they were a half-barbaric people; they have since become one of the most enlightened nations of the globe, and their attachment to the jury has seemed to increase with their enlightenment.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#38. In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical.
Woody Harrelson
#39. Drone attacks subvert the rule of law - we become judge, jury, and executioner - at the push of a button.
Mark McKinnon
#40. Atticus took his career in his hands, made good use of a careless indictment, took his stand before a jury, and accomplished what was never before or afterwards done in Maycomb County: he won an acquittal for a colored boy on a rape charge. The chief witness for the prosecution was a white girl.
Harper Lee
#41. When the American people saw the LA riots and crowds of Blacks cheering O.J. Simpson (who was acquitted by the almost all Black jury), they received a peek into their future.
David Duke
#42. Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers think it expedient should be said or written.
A. V. Dicey
#43. The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.
Jeremy Bentham
#44. The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy.
Jim Garrison
#45. Akil, humans have these wonderful little things we like to cling onto, called souls. The jury's still out as to whether demons have them, I sincerely doubt you do." ~ Muse.
Pippa DaCosta
#46. 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
#47. A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government.
Byron White
#48. Because when it comes to me and mine, I am the judge. I am the jury. And if need be, I am the motherfucking executioner.
T.M. Frazier
#49. 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
#50. The best jury of your peers that you'll ever find is ... well, you. Only you know what you're capable of and what you want to be.
Richelle Mead
#51. Oftentimes Westerners don't really understand fully the values of this particular culture. And I think the jury is still out as to whether democracy can really thrive in Iraq.
Katie Couric
#52. Raise your hand if you had no idea you'd see so much nudity in one week of jury duty.
Twelve hands flew straight into the air.
And unbelievably, Payton laughed.
Julie James
#53. You told me this lawsuit isn't about race. But that's what started it. And it doesn't matter if you can convince the jury I'm the reincarnation of Florence Nightingale - you can't take away the fact that I am Black. The truth is, if I looked like you, this would not be happening to me.
Jodi Picoult
#54. I don't care whether the person is guilty or not guilty. It's not my business to establish guilt or innocence. It's a court of law that does that and a jury does that, but not me.
Werner Herzog
#55. You think you're going to impress an American jury with [your] words? In the eyes of the Americans, you're doomed. Just looking at you in an orange suit, chains, and being Muslim and Arabic is enough to convict you.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi
#56. Yes, the jury was now out. Verdict: Mom liked Max for certain.
Kristen Ashley
#58. Loyalty is that for the lack of which your gang will shoot you without benefit of trial by jury.
Robert Frost
#59. I have been one of the guys who have been skeptical of global warming from the beginning. The jury is obviously still out on it. We see nothing but conflicting reports from across the globe. I'm not sure; I'm not a scientist.
Michael Grimm
#60. It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.
Winston Churchill
#61. A nation that does not read much does not know much. And a nation that does not know much is more likely to make poor choices in the home, the marketplace, the jury box, and the voting booth. And those decisions ultimately affect the entire nation ... the literate and illiterate.
Jim Trelease
#62. A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.
Edmund Barton
#63. If that guy had defended Pontius Pilate, he would have convinced the jury that he was simply assisting a young carpenter who wanted to buy some nails for a cross he was working on.
Jeffrey Archer
#64. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. It's not like the sheep was underage.
Colin Mochrie
#65. 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
#66. I find it bitterly ironic that the bulk of the money a medical-malpractice jury awarded to Terri [Schaivo] for use in making her better instead went into Mr. Felos's pocket to make her dead.
Wesley J. Smith
#67. As I said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, I think Ferguson laid bare a problem that is not unique to St. Louis or that area, and is not unique to our time, and that is a simmering distrust that exists between too many police departments and too many communities of color.
Barack Obama
#68. One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can't do either one.
Jeremy Sumpter
#69. Imagine your consciousness is the judge or jury or parent or friend you must persuade. You want your conscious mind to believe in you. Framing is how your mind perceives whatever situation you are in. Framing is how you choose to think about and thus perceive a challenge in your life. Frame
Mike Cernovich
#70. It wasn't in the states best interest to let the jury know, they said it would raise doubt that John Gacy acted alone. The defence attorneys didn't bring it out because it didn't have..it didn't go along with their insanity defence, showing others were involved.
John Wayne Gacy
#71. Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.
Thomas Jefferson
#72. A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost
#73. A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
Abraham Lincoln
#74. The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me.
Robert Breault
#75. Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.
E.B. White
#76. Mammootty is a great phenomenon.. If I was one among the jury for honourary award of Oscars, I would have definitely selected him as best actor for the film Dr.Baba Saheb Ambedkar
Ram Gopal Varma
#77. 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
#78. The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.
Mark Twain
#79. Their necks also beautifully demonstrate the jury-rigged nature of evolution while simultaneously refuting the notion that some divine Artificer intelligently designed organic life
Brian Switek
#80. When you analyze all the data, there is a warming trend according to science. But the jury is out on the degree of how much is manmade.
Rob Portman
#82. Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.
Rand Paul
#83. I did not see any major issues other than the jury substitutions. I can't know whether there's a problem there, until I read the transcript from the in-chambers conference, when those jurors were excused.
Catherine Crier
#84. I became tired of submitting my art to a panel of corporate strategists who decide if it meets their standard of what gets into stores or not. It was quite simple for me: they act like judge and jury of my art, and that is unacceptable. I wanted to give it right to the public.
Chuck D
#85. 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
#86. A jury is more apt to be unbiased and independent than a court, but they very seldom stand up against strong public clamor. Judges naturally believe the defendant is guilty.
Clarence Darrow
#87. When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.
Aristotle.
#88. The trial by jury might safely be introduced into a despotic government, if the jury were to exercise no right of judging of the law, or the justice of the law.
Lysander Spooner
#89. I have ever had the single aim of justice in view. No judge who is influenced by any other consideration is fit for the bench. 'Do equal and exact justice,' is my motto, and I have often said to the grand jury, 'Permit no innocent man to be punished, but let no guilty man escape.
Isaac Parker
#90. Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.
Dan Castellaneta
#91. The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair trial. And that fair trial needs to have an impartial jury.
Maria Cantwell
#92. I desire to tamper with the jury law. I wish to alter it as to put a premium on intelligence and character, and close the jury box against idiots, blacklegs, and people who do not read newspapers.
Mark Twain
#93. There are two other SLA members who have been granted immunity and then also, one of the SLA members had confessed to two other people, and those people, I'm sure, will be called as witnesses, as they were at the grand jury.
Patty Hearst
#94. We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury.
Ben Bradlee
#95. The slingshot?" said Mrs. Wiggins. "Georgie's got it. We're going to take it down to the cow barn for safe keeping. Well, Alice, you're the judge and the jury, and if you say let him go - " She nodded to her sisters, who set Jimmy down and released his arms. The
Walter R. Brooks
#96. Forcible sodomy and illegal entry, you put them both down and you get a jury confused. They figure it's two ways of saying the same thing.
Lawrence Block
#97. Nullification is not a 'defense' recognized by law, but rather a mechanism that permits a jury, as community conscience, to disregard the strict requirements of law where it finds that those requirements cannot justly be applied in a particular case.
David L. Bazelon
#98. Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
#99. I also suspected he was on the cover of the Denver Firefighters calendar, picture used for the month of July, he was that hot. If the firefighters merged with the police officers and they did a group shot that included Lawson and Jury, the paper might spontaneously combust.
Kristen Ashley
#100. 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
