Jury Quotes

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people that argue on the web for hours about who their favorite character on "Friends" is.

The grand jury's job is not to weigh the evidence from both sides; it is only to decide whether there is enough evidence on one side to bring a person to trial.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I have great faith in the jury system.

We look in... Germany for a superstar. We began with 10,000 people, which applied. From these 10,000, 100 was selected. The jury is unbelievably competent.

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

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.

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

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.