I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about. — Nancy Grace Copy Share Image
What individual can so well assess the amount of damages which a plaintiff ought to recover for an injury he has received… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they're just looking for sheep that are easily impressed. — Johnny Kelly Copy Share Image
Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Don't judge. There are two sides to every story. If you're not going to take the time to hear both, then you… — Sarah Moores Copy Share Image
Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So far, I've never missed a deadline for a term paper, a review, a manuscript. I perform the mumbo-jumbo of voting with… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly… — Edmund Barton Copy Share Image
If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
“But in the absence of eye-witness there's always a doubt, sometimes only the shadow of a doubt. The law says 'reasonable doubt',… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
In any nation in which people's rights have been subordinated to the rights of the few, in any totalitarian nation, the first… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
The idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges, or hereditary juries; and as absurd as an hereditary… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It's painful, but it's part of the recognition that makes real healing possible, if healing is possible (the jury is out on… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
Give me the steady, uniform, unshaken security of constitutional freedom. Give me the right to be tried by a jury of my… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Three features mark the Anglo-American system as different from all others. One is the extent to which our law is formed in… — Charles Rembar Copy Share Image
Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon--destroying ignorance, poverty and despair before they can destroyus. A nation that… — Jim Trelease 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
The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trial by jury of… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
Only God can judge me, I don't need a jury. Nothing standing in my way, like nothing's my security. — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image
Had the jury convicted on proper instructions it would be the end of the matter. But juries are not bound by what… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
“My job is to make sure the law works for you as well as against you, and to make you a human… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship. — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
I have heard stories of how the Malayali jury members trying to play down actors from our own state, stating various reasons. — Salim Kumar Copy Share Image
I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I pretended I had urgent business at the prosecutor's table which, in one of The System's obvious tells, was always millimeters from… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
Earlier today, the jury at the Martha Stewart trial reached a verdict. Martha was found guilty on all charges. In a related… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I had only been a citizen for two weeks when I received a summons to appear for jury duty! — Alex Trebek Copy Share Image
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
God can judge me, I don't need a jury. Nothing standing in my way, like nothing's my security. — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image
The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are. — Joseph Wambaugh Copy Share Image
The wisdom of our ages and the blood of our heroes has been devoted to the attainment of trial by jury. It… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Society's emissions of carbon dioxide may or may not turn out to have something significant to do with global warming-the jury is… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
The jury could get the case as early as next week, but the defense says they just want to introduce one last-minute… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
