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. The jury was a cynical, unsophisticated bunch, seemingly incapable of empathy, eager to embrace defense bromides however haphazardly delivered.
David Turner
#3. Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter.
Abraham Lincoln
#4. The trial by jury is a trial by 'the country,' in contradistinction to a trial by the government. The jurors are drawn by lot from the mass of the people, for the very purpose of having all classes of minds and feelings, that prevail among the people at large, represented in the jury.
Lysander Spooner
#5. Warmth rushes through me because Kismet always prevails.
The jury has decided. I feel it in my bones.
Courtney Cole
#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
#8. I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.
Joseph Wambaugh
#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. Nothing is more excruciating than waiting for the jury's verdict. Except, perhaps, hearing the jury's verdict.
Richard Paul Evans
#11. 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
#12. In America, freedom and justice have always come from the ballot box, the jury box, and when that fails, the cartridge box.
Steve Symms
#13. 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
#14. Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
Clarence Darrow
#15. The jury is supposed to be twelve peers, but technically that would mean every single person on the jury should have Asperger's syndrome, because then they'd really understand me.
Jodi Picoult
#17. Any good trial lawyer knows that if you've got one credible expert or scientific study, then you can let the jury decide.
Joe Jamail
#18. 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
#19. It isn't actually a question of guilt or innocence, is it? It's a matter of what the jury believes, once we've told them what evidence there is on either side. Given the proper evidence, we could probably convict God. Without it, Lucifer himself would walk free!
Charles Todd
#20. 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
#21. And I decide to stop inwardly composing the feminist world court's prosecutorial summation to the jury.
Laurie Viera Rigler
#22. A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
Frederick Douglass
#23. Every year there's a jury at the Cannes Film Festival. Getting on the jury is very competitive in France. Not because the French love cinema, but because they love to judge.
Craig Ferguson
#24. It's unnecessary to make that, you know, strong of a statement. Let the facts, let the case, you know, and the evidence there speak for itself. You want to be careful that you're not poisoning the jury pool.
Kimberly Guilfoyle
#25. Straining to appear judicial, he turned toward the jury box. "The jurors shall disregard the last ... uh ... colloquy between the witness and defense counsel." Might as well ask the residents of Pompeii to ignore the volcano.
Paul Levine
#26. You don't have to be a college graduate to murder someone." "Thank you for making the jury aware of that, Lieutenant. I'm sure they had no idea.
David Rosenfelt
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. There's no cap on success. The jury stays out till you take your last breath.
Judy Sheindlin
#30. The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.
Joni Mitchell
#31. 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
#32. No political party can ever make prohibition effective. A political party implies an adverse, an opposing, political party. To enforce criminal statutes implies substantial unanimity in the community. This is the result of the jury system. Hence the futility of party prohibition.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.
Liam Neeson
#37. The jury had persuaded themselves that he was decent, because they had wanted to think that in his shoes they would have been decent too. They had no idea how decency, loyalty, courage, how it all shrivelled away when one was frightened.
Sarah Waters
#38. 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
#39. 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.
#40. 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
#41. The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.
Winston Churchill
#42. A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
Thomas Fuller
#43. A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
Thomas Fuller
#44. 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
#45. that's already been born. The jury is still out on these findings, but I believe them. All I have to do is think of Sophie, and how there are certain details I wish I could freeze in amber: her munchkin voice or her iridescent pink fingernails or the xylophone of her laughter. It's
Jodi Picoult
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. When the jury came in, it didn't just disappoint me it shook the foundations of my beliefs, it shook the foundations of my beliefs in the justice system, in human beings, in my abilities and judgement and in my sense of reality. It just blew me away emotionally and psychologically.
David Rudolf
#50. To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#51. 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
#52. The jury had never been allowed to see any evidence that Laetrile actually worked. (Yes Virginia, they can bury medical breakthroughs in court this way also.) Dr. Kowan ... was ... age 70 ...
G. Edward Griffin
#53. At least in America, the narrative is I'm a Cannes favorite. But, in fact, I've had my best experience in Venice, both with the audience and the jury.
James Gray
#54. Yes, the jury was now out. Verdict: Mom liked Max for certain.
Kristen Ashley
#55. 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
#56. The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.
Jello Biafra
#57. If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.
Lysander Spooner
#58. My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.
Jennifer Lopez
#59. It's a pun!' the King added in an offended tone, and everybody laughed, 'Let the jury consider their verdict,' the King said, for about the twentieth time that day.
Lewis Carroll
#60. Group sex, are you kidding, I had group sex - my wife screwed in front of the jury.
Rodney Dangerfield
#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. Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
Margaret Mead
#63. I watched Hugo Barrington when he gave his evidence. The same self-confidence, the same arrogance, the same half-truths spouted convincingly to the jury, just as he'd whispered them to me in the privacy of the bedroom.
Jeffrey Archer
#64. 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
#65. In his closing argument, Hayes apologized to the jury for surrounding them with witnesses who weren't the most upstanding citizens, but explained that was the nature of solving crime. "Dope murders don't occur in front of bankers and clergymen," he said. In
Mardi Jo Link
#66. 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
#67. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. It's not like the sheep was underage.
Colin Mochrie
#68. The jury, which is the most energetic means to make the people rule, is also the most effective means to teach them to rule.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#69. 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
#70. Georgia law at the time allowed a defendant to make an unsworn statement to the jury with no cross-examination allowed. Gallogly started reading his statement to the jury but talked so fast and so low that Reuben Arnold suggested he stand directly in front of the jury box, which he did. Gallogly met
David Beasley
#71. Ridiculous! I couldn't marry, mate, or whatever it entailed with Zane. He was a werewolf. With my assorted background
I was all for interracial relationships. Interspecies? - The jury was still out on that possibility.
Carol Van Atta
#72. Suddenly, gentlemen of the jury, I felt a Dostoevskian grin dawning (through the very grimace that twisted my lips) like a distant and terrible sun.
Vladimir Nabokov
#73. It wasn't fair. I wanted to take her to friend court. I wanted to sue her. But I could see the faces of the jury when it was revealed that her mother had just died. Died.
Leila Howland
#74. We look in ... Germany for a superstar. We began with 10,000 people, which applied. From these 10,000, 100 was selected. The jury is unbelievably competent.
Michelle Hunziker
#75. 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
#76. The jury's still out on your level of intellect. After all, you signed up with Evil Incorporated in the first place.
Katherine McIntyre
#77. Meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. Let the jury consider their verdict.
Lewis Carroll
#78. The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me.
Robert Breault
#79. Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.
E.B. White
#80. In any nation in which people's rights have been subordinated to the rights of the few, in any totalitarian nation, the first institution to be dismantled is the jury. I was, I am, afraid.
Gerry Spence
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.
William Shakespeare
#84. The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.
Alan Dershowitz
#85. Oh, I beg your pardon! she exclaimed in a tone of great dismay, and began picking them up again as quickly as she could, for the accident of the gold-fish kept running in her head, and she had a vague sort of idea that they must be collected at once and put back into the jury-box, or they would die.
Lewis Carroll
#86. Two abysses, gentlemen of the jury, remember that Karamazov can contemplate two abysses, and both at the same time.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#87. The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.
Mark Twain
#88. "Write that down," the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.
Lewis Carroll
#89. 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
#90. My job is to make sure the law works for you as well as against you, and to make you a human being in the eyes of the jury.
Walter Dean Myers
#91. In our system, we leave questions of fact to a jury. But to render a verdict, a jury must know the law. For this, we rely upon jury instructions. Instructions are supposed to translate the law into lay terms that the jury can apply to the facts as they determine them.
Alafair Burke
#92. 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
#93. Drawing conclusions is up to the jury, that is, the readers. My only job is to be talented, that is, to know how to distinguish important testimony from unimportant, to place my characters in the proper light and speak their language.
Janet Malcolm
#94. 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
#95. Society's emissions of carbon dioxide may or may not turn out to have something significant to do with global warming-the jury is still out.
Edward Teller
#96. 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
#97. Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
Frederick Douglass
#98. 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
#99. There are two MFA programs here at the University of Texas, and I read on the jury of both of them. And it's amazing to me how many really talented young writers seem to fear humor.
Elizabeth McCracken
#100. When my film went to the Venice Film Festival and won the best script writing, the jury [prize], it didn't go to my head. I know how many black filmmakers that I am operating with whose name will never be mentioned. But I'm part of them in that silent existence.
Haile Gerima
