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Juries are not computers. They are composed of human beings who evaluate evidence differently. -- Alan Dershowitz
Juries must, of necessity, be governed, in reaching many results through inferences from other facts, by certain laws of nature and human reason. They are often obliged to infer one thing from another, and this, whether that other be a fact direct or circumstantial. -- Levi Woodbury
If I had killed somebody, it wouldn't have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But f-ing, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to f- young girls. Juries want to f- young girls. Everyone wants to f- young girls! -- Roman Polanski
I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive. -- Bernadine Dohrn
I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things. -- Patricia Highsmith
Believe it or not, there are people who want to be on juries. -- Nancy Grace
Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day. -- Johnnie Cochran
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries. -- Clarence Darrow
I've served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way. -- Simon Hoggart
I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times. -- Vincent Bugliosi
Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times. -- Vincent Bugliosi
From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries. -- Harper Lee
I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth. -- Rick Moody
I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about. -- Nancy Grace
It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives. -- William Lacy Clay, Jr.
Interviews, and hence interviewers, are there to help shed light, and to let viewers judge for themselves. We are not judges, juries, commentators or torturers - nor friends, either. -- Andrew Marr
Putting pressure on grand juries to indict in my view is un-American. A grand jury should be allowed to be fair and impartial. They shouldn't have people yelling and screaming. -- Rudy Giuliani
If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature. -- Charles B. Rangel
Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice. -- Pat Roberts
Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them. -- Tammy Faye Bakker
There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true. -- Matt Taibbi
While in the Florida legislature, I strongly opposed the Stand Your Ground law because I believed it would provide defenses to people who had created the scenarios they sought protection from. Or it would leave juries without the proper rules of engagement that ought govern predictable human interactions. -- Dan Gelber
'CSI' has not only remained a top-rated show through seven seasons; it has had real-world consequences. Police and prosecutors complain of a 'CSI' effect' that leads juries to demand more physical evidence than they used to expect. College officials use the same term to describe spiking enrollment in forensic-science programs. -- Virginia Postrel
But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an accused person, even as to matters of fact; for, if the government can dictate to a jury any law whatever, in a criminal case, it can certainly dictate to them the laws of evidence. -- Lysander Spooner
I have had it with people who are threatening me and my kids and my family over simply commenting on the law and criminal procedure, and respecting juries. Because they do work hard. They work way harder than I do; and they work way harder than the rest of those people making those peanut gallery comments. -- Ashleigh Banfield
I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive. -- Bernadine Dohrn
Jews can't serve on juries because they insist they're guilty. -- Cathy Ladman
Women should not be allowed on juries where the accused is a stud. -- Rush Limbaugh
The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it. -- Thomas Jefferson
When Blacks got the right to vote, white women got the right to sit on juries. -- Jesse Jackson
[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries. -- Thurgood Marshall
Had the jury convicted on proper instructions it would be the end of the matter. But juries are not bound by what seems inescapable logic to judges. -- Robert H. Jackson
The kind of evidence that was put before the jurors led to less-than-rational decision-making. I think that juries are composed of good people who can be misled. -- Kenneth C. Frazier
Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent. -- Oscar Wilde
The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong. -- Robert Henri
Those who serve upon our juries have maintained a standard of fairness and excellence and demonstrated a vision toward the administration of justice that is a wellspring of inspiration. -- Earl Warren
As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system-the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges-would take care of that; they didn't need his help. -- Scott Turow
Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice -- Pat Roberts
Drink a health to the wonders of the western world, the pirates, preachers, poteen-makers, with the jobbing jockies; parching peelers, and the juries fill their stomachs selling judgments of the English law. -- John Millington Synge
A woman was the property of her father or her husband and that remained true right into the twentieth century. It wasn't until 1975 that women had a guaranteed right to serve on federal juries. -- Noam Chomsky
The idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges, or hereditary juries; and as absurd as an hereditary mathematician, or an hereditary wise man; and as ridiculous as an hereditary poet-laureat. -- Thomas Paine

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