Jury Quotes

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

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.

If a jury of your peers finds you not guilty, I will reinstate you back into baseball.

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.

The jury could get the case as early as next week, but the defense says they just want to introduce one last-minute load of crap.

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him.

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me.

Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.

The jury passing on the prisoner's life May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try.

When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.

Trial by jury is a wise distribution of power which exceeds all other modes of trial.

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.

I don't get into politics, general or musical, but just call me if you get jury duty. Even in New Jersey I was able to help somebody.

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.

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.

One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can't do either one.

Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial.

Trial by jury must be preserved. It is the best system ever invented for a free people in the world's history.

Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they're just looking for sheep that are easily impressed.

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.

There's no cap on success. The jury stays out till you take your last breath.

God can judge me, I don't need a jury. Nothing standing in my way, like nothing's my security.

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.

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.

I've served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way.

A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.

I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

Jews can't serve on juries because they insist they're guilty.

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

If I had it to do again, I would less often judge myself and more often ask for a jury.

Loyalty is that for the lack of which your gang will shoot you without benefit of trial by jury.

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.

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.

One mechanism of repression is the grand jury.

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.

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

I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.

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.

When you see a lawyer trying to pick a smart jury, you know he's got a strong case.

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.

Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant.

You might be a redneck if you missed 5th grade graduation because you had jury duty.

"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.

Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

To me, political office should be like jury duty. You should just get a notice in the mail one day and say, 'Aw, sh - , I'm secretary of state next month.