Jurors want courtroom lawyers to have some compassion and…

A lawyer once told a jury that the person his client stood accused of having killed was about to walk through the courtroom door.…

— John Adams

Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day.

— Johnnie Cochran

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

— Johnnie Cochran

Currently, we're finding that about 75 percent of potential jurors have anger or deep-seated hatred toward anyone associated with Enron.

— Michael Ramsey

Jurors realize that instead of having to make that terrible decision (voting for the death penalty), they can vote to put someone in prison…

— Robert Falcon Scott

One point is certain, that truth is one and immutable; until the jurors all agree, they cannot all be right.

— Washington Irving

Evidence of defendants' lavish lifestyles is often used to provide a motive for fraud. Jurors sometimes wonder why an executive making tens of millions…

— Alex Berenson

[N]o American should retreat an inch on the right of jurors to acquit if they perceive the law or its administration to be unjust.

— Charley Reese

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

— Abraham Lincoln

The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to…

— Mark Twain

Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and…

— Jonathan Swift

“The compensation question was where they had to deliberate the most. “Probably took three or four hours to just settle on a number,” Tom…

— Kelly Loudenberg

Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction . . . if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction…

— Alexander Hamilton

To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them into what…

— Jerome Frank

Global warming ... may be a plaintiff lawyer's dream. And it's interesting, in a perverse way, to imagine how a jury in 2050 might…

— David Ignatius