Quotes About Jury

No one can just file a charge and go directly to a jury trial. That just cannot happen.

If you go to probably any jury trial in Baltimore that involves violence, either an assault or murder, and watch the voir dire, to me, that's when you get a sense of what it's like to live in Baltimore.

Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.

We are not living up to Thomas Jefferson's idea of what a trial by jury means.

When you think about it, a trial is not really about what the truth is, it's about which barrister is better at persuading those 12 people to believe their story.

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

Any good trial lawyer knows that if you've got one credible expert or scientific study, then you can let the jury decide.

Scientists want to know the evidence behind a statement; they want reproducible tests and verifiable facts. There is a big difference in the thought process of a trial lawyer who is interested not in what's true but what he can convince a jury is true.

JUDGE LITTLEFIELD (rising): Right … Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, at this time, I must excuse myself from these proceedings until such time as said witness has concluded testimony. Before his ascension into the Lap of the Lord, Caiaphas the Elder and I were partners in a successful chain of Kosher Pizza Parlors in East Purgatory—For that reason, at this time, I must step down. Bailiff!!! Get your ass over there, put on those glasses, and adjudicate—pronto! Proceed.

On July 13, 1998, after eight months of protracted and acrimonious legal wrangling, a six-person jury decided that Sharpton, Mason, and Maddox indeed had defamed Pagones. Sixteen days later, they assessed Sharpton $65,000 in damages, Maddox $95,000, and Mason $185,000.

Always treat people with respect and kindness, for they may be selected to be on your jury.

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.

In the jury selection process, the court needs to be reassured that the verdict will be based on evidence.

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

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

The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.

I believe in the jury system.

The jury is still out on whether humans are causing climate change.

I am finally glad to see that the jury is looking at me.

I don't believe anyone has leaked grand jury information.

I have faith in the jury system.

No court presumes to tell a jury that they are to try a capital case with the same indifference and unconcern as to consequences, that they would a case where the results of their decision would be less important.

I have never served on a jury because MPs were exempted - or banned, I think.