Jury Quotes

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

Along the way I have been able to choose some themes which ask questions - not necessarily force a message on anyone, but at least invite the audience to question things: jury service, dignity in dying, Ireland - and not least because they force me to ask myself questions. Where do I stand?

The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy.

I did not see any major issues other than the jury substitutions. I can't know whether there's a problem there, until I read the transcript from the in-chambers conference, when those jurors were excused.

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

The jury could get the case as early as next week, but the defense says they just want to introduce one last-minute load of crap.

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

I think right now the jury is out on where and how much profit is available in the consumer electronics industry, because if you look at the current consumer electronics players, the biggest ones on the planet struggle to make profit consistently.

The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair trial. And that fair trial needs to have an impartial jury.

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

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

The values of confidentiality of matters occurring before the grand jury is very important.

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the wide circle of the empire would submit to such an infraction of their privilege, even if a judge could be found daring enough to attempt it.

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.

When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on.

In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked.

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.

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.

I vote and I do jury duty.

We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury.

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed.

One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can't do either one.

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor.

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

That D.C. grand jury investigation of Abramoff can't go on forever. Eventually the lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses with some decisions about just who they want to indict. That's when Al Gonzales will have to show his cards.

Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.