Quotes About Jury

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.

I stopped trying to figure out American juries around the same time Adam Sandler movies started raking in millions at the box office--people just don't act predictably.

I'm just glad the jury is still not out where we're concerned. It feels like it took an awfully long time to find each other. And I don't want to waste any more of it." He leaned down and kissed her, lingering, and then continuing on a little longer. Then they were laughing and saying meaningless things and kissing, then laughing again

The jury may be out over the long-term consequences, but it seems prudent to us to avoid C-sections if you have a choice.

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.

fear was good; fear was an ally; that every lawyer was afraid when he stood before a new jury and presented his case. It was okay to be afraid – just don't show it.

Lucien had taught him that fear was good; fear was an ally; that every lawyer was afraid when he stood before a new jury and presented his case. It was okay to be afraid – just don't show it.

before a jury. It takes time: time to

The sixteen grand jurors sat around a long, square table

James Lindsey, age fifty-three, married; occupation—none; address—a rural road out from the remote settlement of Box Hill, almost to Tyler County. His questionnaire said he was a Baptist. He had volunteered nothing during the morning session, and no one seemed to know anything about him. Neither John Wilbanks nor Miles Truitt wanted to waste a challenge, so James Lindsey became the first juror selected for the trial.

But, in a case like this, it'll be nice to have twelve of our good and faithful citizens in the hot seat.

Trucks hauling coal that weighs a hundred tons, racing across old, twenty-ton bridges still used by school buses, and absolutely ignoring every rule of the road. If there's an accident, it's usually bad. In West Virginia, they're killing one innocent driver per week. The trucker swears he was doing nothing wrong, his buddy backs him up, there are no other witnesses, so the jury falls in line with Big Coal.

Yes, okay, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I have admonished Mr. Rudy, and I ask you to continue as if the word 'crooked' had not been uttered." At that moment, and for hours to come, the dominant word in the jurors' thoughts and discussions was, and would be, of course, "crooked.

Drew nodded and might have spoken. "Please speak up, sir," Noose almost yelled into his microphone. Jake looked down at his client. "Yes sir." "And you are represented by the Honorable Jake Brigance, right?" "Yes sir." "And you have been indicted by the grand jury of Ford County for the murder

By five-thirty, eleven people had been excused, and sixteen others had been sent back to their seats after failing to sound sufficiently pitiful

It's a fragile system, this trusting of lives to twelve average, ordinary people who do not understand the law and are intimidated by the process.

The friends believe that Job is on trial—the defendant in a criminal case—and that he has been found guilty. But this is a backward trial. In their assessment, the judge has passed down the verdict, and now they, as the jury, need to try the case and find the evidence to uphold the verdict. To this end, Job is intensely cross-examined.

Those who serve upon our juries have maintained a standard of fairness and excellence and demonstrated a vision toward the administration of justice that is a wellspring of inspiration.

You'd need a retarded jury not to convict." "What's your point?" Jenkins asked.

Religious conduct occupies no "forbidden field," but rather stands shoulder-to-shoulder with all other conduct that engenders the same harm. The question was whether the behavior was so reprehensible as to deserve punitive damages. Obviously, a jury thought so.

CAR TAPE. October 1994. I'd like to see us abolish the jury system. Why leave the fate of our nation in the hands of these moon rocks?

If popular opinion and celebrity and fame and the politically correct view is going to be what really sways the jury, if the jury will disregard the law, disregard the evidence, and everyone expects it to happen, then why bother? Have

Fuhrman was a big deal only because the defense required a bogeyman to distract the jury from the devastating evidence against their client. Almost

In America, freedom and justice have always come from the ballot box, the jury box, and when that fails, the cartridge box.