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I have faith in the jury system. -- Nancy Grace
I have great faith in the jury system. -- Mills Lane
I have great faith in the jury system. -- Mills Lane
I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while. -- Joseph Wambaugh
The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury. -- Mark Twain
Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention. -- Margaret Mead
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
The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law. -- Winston Churchill
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
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
No political party can ever make prohibition effective. A political party implies an adverse, an opposing, political party. To enforce criminal statutes implies substantial unanimity in the community. This is the result of the jury system. Hence the futility of party prohibition. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
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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.
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
It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot. -- Joseph Brodsky
In our system, we leave questions of fact to a jury. But to render a verdict, a jury must know the law. For this, we rely upon jury instructions. Instructions are supposed to translate the law into lay terms that the jury can apply to the facts as they determine them. -- Alafair Burke
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
I pretended I had urgent business at the prosecutor's table which, in one of The System's obvious tells, was always millimeters from the jury box. -- Sergio De La Pava

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