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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance. -- Herbert Spencer
A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial. -- Thomas Fuller
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. -- Groucho Marx
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. -- Robert Frost
If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. -- Luther Burbank
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. -- Norm Crosby
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. -- H. L. Mencken
We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin. -- Dave Barry
Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box. -- Ambrose Bierce
Jury lawlessness is the greatest corrective of law in its actual administration. -- Roscoe Pound
Jury verdicts, basketball games, and even music are enough to set off black rage, it seems, -- Ron Paul
Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are. -- Joseph Wambaugh
We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury. -- Ben Bradlee
Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him. -- H. L. Mencken
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. -- Bob Woodward
I have great faith in the jury system. -- Mills Lane
The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts. -- Samuel Chase
No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner -- Rand Paul
Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn. -- Clarence Darrow
Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they're just looking for sheep that are easily impressed. -- Johnny Kelly
To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph. -- John Mortimer
Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent. -- E. B. White
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. -- Martha Beck
I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth. -- Rick Moody
The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try. -- William Shakespeare
The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth. -- Alan Dershowitz
I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution. -- Thomas Jefferson
In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature. -- James Madison
I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. -- Harper Lee
A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested. -- Edmund Barton
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. If everyday experience hasn't convinced you of this, there's research that will. -- Martha Beck
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. -- Donella Meadows
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. -- Jon Stewart
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. -- Vincent Bugliosi
The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here. -- Antonio Villaraigosa
The corporations don't like open courts of law, trials by jury. They want to privatize by pushing people into compulsory arbitration where they win most of the time and the whole process is pretty secret. -- Ralph Nader
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read- -- Mark Twain
To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way effected 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. -- Byron White
If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which the judges may be suspected of bias, the jury undertake to decide both law and fact. -- Thomas Jefferson
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. -- Nellie Bly
There are two other SLA members who have been granted immunity and then also, one of the SLA members had confessed to two other people, and those people, I'm sure, will be called as witnesses, as they were at the grand jury. -- Patty Hearst
It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be. -- Josh Radnor
When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process that allows the police to become judge and jury-national security letters, no-knock searches, broad general warrants, pre-conviction forfeiture-we begin to have a very serious problem on our hands. -- Rand Paul
In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same. -- Ida B. Wells
In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical. -- Woody Harrelson
There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out. -- Martin Seligman
As I said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, I think Ferguson laid bare a problem that is not unique to St. Louis or that area, and is not unique to our time, and that is a simmering distrust that exists between too many police departments and too many communities of color. -- Barack Obama
The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try and respect it. A thing which is not thoroughly easy to do, when we reflect that by command of the law a criminal juror must be an intellectual vacuum, attached to a melting heart and perfectly macaronian bowels of compassion. -- Mark Twain
I have faith in the jury system. -- Nancy Grace
I vote and I do jury duty. -- Christopher Hitchens
I have great faith in the jury system. -- Mills Lane
One mechanism of repression is the grand jury. -- Michael Parenti
The civil jury is a valuable safeguard to liberty. -- Alexander Hamilton
I don't believe anyone has leaked grand jury information. -- Ken Starr
Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor. -- Clarence Darrow
When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial. -- Aristotle
Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty. -- George Bernard Shaw
A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor -- Donella Meadows
A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor. -- Donella Meadows
The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics. -- Jello Biafra
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. It's not like the sheep was underage. -- Colin Mochrie
Life is like jury duty. Just do it and get it over with. -- Dana Gould
A grand jury would 'indict a ham sandwich,' if that's what you wanted. -- Sol Wachtler
Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial. -- Jerome Frank
A jury could very well conclude that this is a case of buyer's remorse. -- Ken Buck
I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write. -- David O. Russell
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. -- Robert Frost
The values of confidentiality of matters occurring before the grand jury is very important. -- Ken Starr
Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely. -- Thurgood Marshall
Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely -- Thurgood Marshall
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Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter. -- Abraham Lincoln
Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to. -- Chuck Robb
I always wait until a jury has spoken before I anticipate what they will do. -- Janet Reno
There's no cap on success. The jury stays out till you take your last breath. -- Judy Sheindlin
Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety. -- Thomas Jefferson
Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago. -- Liam Neeson
You might be a redneck if you missed 5th grade graduation because you had jury duty. -- Jeff Foxworthy
Serving jury duty is a fascinating little slice of life, with its motley crew of personalities. -- Nina Garcia
Trial by jury is a wise distribution of power which exceeds all other modes of trial. -- Edward Coke
I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while. -- Joseph Wambaugh
If a jury of your peers finds you not guilty, I will reinstate you back into baseball. -- Kenesaw Mountain Landis
I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times. -- Vincent Bugliosi
A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box. -- Frederick Douglass
Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races. -- Dan Castellaneta
I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years. -- Paul Simon
Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components. -- Stephen Jay Gould
A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government. -- Byron White
Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times. -- Vincent Bugliosi
The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury. -- Mark Twain
The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries. -- Joni Mitchell
Pay close attention to when you're being the real you & when you're trying to impress an invisible jury. -- Derek Sivers
Group sex, are you kidding, I had group sex - my wife screwed in front of the jury. -- Rodney Dangerfield
When you see a lawyer trying to pick a smart jury, you know he's got a strong case. -- F. Lee Bailey
God can judge me, I don't need a jury. Nothing standing in my way, like nothing's my security. -- Lil Wayne
The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes the worst cigars. -- H. L. Mencken
I had only been a citizen for two weeks when I received a summons to appear for jury duty! -- Alex Trebek
Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship. -- Sarah Vowell
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. -- George Plimpton
Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention. -- Margaret Mead
It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
Loyalty is that for the lack of which your gang will shoot you without benefit of trial by jury. -- Robert Frost
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail? -- Stephen Ambrose
If you were summoned for jury duty and you didn't show up, what would happen? You'd be in jail! -- Trey Gowdy
Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty. -- Woody Allen
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If I had it to do again, I would less often judge myself and more often ask for a jury. -- Robert Breault
A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor. -- Abraham Lincoln
Drone attacks subvert the rule of law - we become judge, jury, and executioner - at the push of a button. -- Mark McKinnon
The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me. -- Robert Breault
Trial by jury must be preserved. It is the best system ever invented for a free people in the world's history. -- John Henry Wigmore
Julian Assange shouldn't be the subject of a grand jury hearing, he should be given a medal. He's contributing to democracy. -- Noam Chomsky
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. -- Michelle Hunziker
I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest. -- Donella Meadows
The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance. -- Philip Guston
Any good trial lawyer knows that if you've got one credible expert or scientific study, then you can let the jury decide. -- Joe Jamail
One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can't do either one. -- Jeremy Sumpter
In America, freedom and justice have always come from the ballot box, the jury box, and when that fails, the cartridge box. -- Steve Symms
The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal. -- Louis Agassiz
We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box. -- Larry McDonald

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