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
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
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
A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government. — Byron White 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
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
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
To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way effected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to… — Byron White Copy Share Image
