Quotes About Jury

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.

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.

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

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

During oral arguments, Howard Wimberley, assistant attorney general for Texas, presented the state's two-class theory, which had been used in previous trials to explain why Mexican Americans were not called for jury duty. Wimberley argued that in Texas there were only two races, Blacks and whites, and only Blacks on occasion needed the government's protection from hostile whites.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

The six-man inquest jury assembled was composed of local residents, men whose lives strikingly resembled that of the murdered Robert Newsom.

I have faith in the jury system.

You can twist perception reality won"t budge you can raise objection I won2t be judge and jury

The coroner summed up at considerably length and with commendable simplicity. His manner suggested that the jury as a whole was certifiable as mentally unsound, but that he knew his duty and would perform it in the teeth of stupidity.

And eventually, he (Charles Manson) testified to an empty court, as Bugliosi had convinced the presiding judge Older, that Manson's hypnotic powers might convince the jury he was innocent.

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 pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

Judge Gram quickly perused the document before announcing in a strong and steady voice the jury's 10–2 decision followed by a grim roll call of the victims. "Sane on all counts.

Would you want to be judged by people too stupid to get out of jury duty?

Straining to appear judicial, he turned toward the jury box. "The jurors shall disregard the last… uh… colloquy between the witness and defense counsel." Might as well ask the residents of Pompeii to ignore the volcano.

anyone with a sense of humor is a likely candidate for the defense.

jurors can't help themselves. They're swayed by their life experiences as much as the evidence and the law. Still, with all my bellyaching, here's the strange thing. Juries usually get it right!

We trust people's lives to randomly selected juries as the only fair method; should we use any less fair method for a nation or a planet?