Jury Quotes

I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.

Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter.

The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.

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.

I vote and I do jury duty.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Pay close attention to when you're being the real you & when you're trying to impress an invisible jury.

Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.

What individual can so well assess the amount of damages which a plaintiff ought to recover for an injury he has received than an intelligent jury?

I always wait until a jury has spoken before I anticipate what they will do.

Describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial: These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.

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.

Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day.

There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people that argue on the web for hours about who their favorite character on 'Friends' is.

The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.

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.

A jury could very well conclude that this is a case of buyer's remorse.

A great deal remains to be done in Afghanistan and the jury is out as to whether the international community has the commitment and the patience to see the rebuilding process through.

In war, force is used by the belligerents themselves, no effort being made to bring evildoers before a judicial body, each army acting as judge, jury and executioner.

The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal.

Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.

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.

Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

I have great faith in the jury system.

I have faith in the jury system.

Julian Assange shouldn't be the subject of a grand jury hearing, he should be given a medal. He's contributing to democracy.

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years.

The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.

Jury verdicts, basketball games, and even music are enough to set off black rage, it seems.

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.

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.

I have many things to say. My every right, constitutional, civil, political and judicial has been tramped upon. I have not only had no jury of my peers, but I have had no jury at all.

The wisdom of our ages and the blood of our heroes has been devoted to the attainment of trial by jury. It should be the creed of our political faith.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.

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.

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.

Are you good men and true?

Mr Judge, Jury & Executioner of Micah Xavier Johnson‬ needs to go to jail as soon as possible – he is a danger to civilized society.

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

Having vision is much more than just being visual.

The jury’s still out on your level of intellect. After all, you signed up with Evil Incorporated in the first place.

The jury system was somewhat of an anomaly, like everything else in the law.

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.