Jury Quotes
Jury Quote of the day
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.
I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government.
In America, freedom and justice have always come from the ballot box, the jury box, and when that fails, the cartridge box.
Some people try to get out of jury duty by lying. You don't have to lie. Tell the judge the truth. Tell him you'd make a terrific juror because you can spot guilty people.
We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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.
In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.
Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.
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
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.
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.
To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.
Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?
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.
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.
I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
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!
We have a Bill of Rights, we have trial by jury. We have a notion that you are - you're innocent until you're proven guilty. We have all these things.
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.
The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives.
The Oscar nominations are out, and they're so white a grand jury has decided not to indict them.
We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.
The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience (in this case, the judge or the jury) that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
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.