Jury Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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