Quotes About Jury

Every year, the Giller jury is different. You write the best book you can and throw it out there.

My point is you've been given a powerful blessing in life in this country to be able to vote and to be able to sit on the jury, so come equipped.

As a lawyer, particularly in criminal law, you really do have to try to tell your story to the jury and hope that the judge makes rulings that allows your story to get through.

Film fests are an opportunity to see different kinds of films that you usually don't get to watch. When I'm part of a jury, then I get to judge films, but otherwise I attend festivals to watch two or three films a day and network with a gathering of cinema lovers from all over.

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

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

A trial is nothing but a competition to tell the best story. Whoever sways the jury wins the trial.

You can't talk to a jury about the technical details of your specialty and make any sense. The jury won't know what you're talking about, and that is precisely why you were hired.

Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.

A jury is always a more orthodox body than any defendant brought before it; for blacks it is usually a whiter group, for poor people, a more prosperous group... Another lesson about the justice system: the way the judge charges the jury inevitably pushes them one way or the other, limits their independent judgment.

The court and jury convened in the mess hall, two decks below the flight deck. A "Grand Inquisitor" interrogated the pollywogs with the help of "scribes" and "kibitzers." The accused were asked preposterous and insulting questions, and no matter how they answered, they were likely to be held in "contempt of court.

Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.

The Sixth Amendment secures to persons charged with crime the right to be tried by an impartial jury reflecting a fair cross-section of the community.

Those admirers created so strong a ballast against possible Kremlin tampering with the jury vote that it was said years later by critic Tamara Grum-Grzhimailo that the seeds of perestroika were first planted in this moment,

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.

Customs have been handed down by ages of repetition, but the punishment for ignoring a custom is a matter for individual treatment by a jury of the culprit's peers, and I may say that justice seldom misses fire, but seems rather to rule in inverse ratio to the ascendency of law.

local jury trial'—that's the vicinage.

Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.

It was a nice kiss. Very... memorable. If he came near me with that look again, I'd hit him upside the head and claim self-defense. No jury in the world would convict me.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

'Twelve Angry Men' was done with an intermission, and I took that out. I really wanted an audience to feel like they had no break, just like those jurors, and you're not going to get out of that room until you come to a decision.

During my jury selection process, we went through over 360 jurors. It took six months, all New York residents. Of the 360 jurors, over half of them had been mugged one time. Quite a number of them, maybe 30 40, 50, had been mugged twice.

Believe it or not, there are people who want to be on juries.

No, Peters, it's all perfectly clear except a reason for doing it. But you know juries when it comes to women.