Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day. — Johnnie Cochran Copy Share Image
Jurors want courtroom lawyers to have some compassion and be nice. — Johnnie Cochran Copy Share Image
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Students are not to read the Bible, jurors are not to hear it, prosecutors cannot quote from it, and teachers are not… — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
One point is certain, that truth is one and immutable; until the jurors all agree, they cannot all be right. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Currently, we're finding that about 75 percent of potential jurors have anger or deep-seated hatred toward anyone associated with Enron. — Michael Ramsey Copy Share Image
The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes the worst cigars. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own opinion,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Before we condemn the jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman, we should remember that they were asked to do something extraordinary. They were… — Alafair Burke Copy Share Image
During my jury selection process, we went through over 360 jurors. It took six months, all New York residents. Of the 360… — Bernhard Goetz Copy Share Image
The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Jurors realize that instead of having to make that terrible decision (voting for the death penalty), they can vote to put someone… — Robert Falcon Scott Copy Share Image
A Seattle lawyer once interrupted his lengthy cross-examination of a witness and exclaimed, "Your Honor, one of the jurors is asleep." "You… — James Keller Copy Share Image
“Some of the more industrious ones were washing the windshields of cars that had been trapped by the red light. I used… — Arthur Nersesian Copy Share Image
The terrible state of public education has paid huge dividends in ignorance. Huge. We now have a country that can be told… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Jurors have found, again and again, and at critical moments, according to what is their sense of the rational and just. If… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
A lawyer once told a jury that the person his client stood accused of having killed was about to walk through the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Since natural law was thought to be accessible to the ordinary man, the theory invited each juror to inquire for himself whether… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural… — Harlan F. Stone Copy Share Image
Howard Zinn ran what is called the Zinn Education Project. It is a radical, radical bunch of insane lunatic leftists. And there… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
You and I can profit by asking ourselves: What do I see when I look through the lens of my attitude toward… — John Powell Copy Share Image
“The jury was composed of eight blacks and four whites. Hoffa and his attorney, the legendary Edward Bennett Williams, struck only white… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
“During voir dire, the interviews for jury selection, each person is asked under oath about their experience with the criminal justice system,… — Edward Conlon Copy Share Image
“The compensation question was where they had to deliberate the most. “Probably took three or four hours to just settle on a… — Kelly Loudenberg Copy Share Image
[N]o American should retreat an inch on the right of jurors to acquit if they perceive the law or its administration to… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government. — Byron White Copy Share Image
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… — Kenneth C. Frazier Copy Share Image
I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Some people try to get out of jury duty by lying. You don't have to lie. Tell the judge the truth. Tell… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
When jurors are forced to spend day and night with each other, apart from their families and friends, they become a tribe… — Marcia Clark Copy Share Image
Because jurors have an extraordinary amount of power over the situation and of the people and the story in front of them,… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Global warming ... may be a plaintiff lawyer's dream. And it's interesting, in a perverse way, to imagine how a jury in… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
The grand solid merit of jury trial is that the jurors ... are selected at the last moment from the multitude of… — John Henry Wigmore Copy Share Image
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