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
If I and other whistleblowers are sentenced to long years in prison without so much as a chance to explain our motivations… — Edward Snowden 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
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
The average juror is not Mr. Spock. If he were, then a trial-court judge's job would be much easier. He could instruct… — Amul Thapar Copy Share Image
Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the… — Joseph Howe 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
Right to a speedy jury trial and so on and so forth. But what do they mean by 'person'? It certainly didn't… — Noam Chomsky 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
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
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
The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
“Your witness,” the attorney snapped to Roark. “No questions,” said Roark. Dominique left the stand. The attorney bowed to the bench and… — Ayn Rand 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
I don't want to live in a country that lies can prevail in court. Where you can walk into a courtroom and… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
"Write that down," the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
There are two other SLA members who have been granted immunity and then also, one of the SLA members had confessed to… — Patty Hearst Copy Share Image
But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The trial by jury is a trial by 'the country,' in contradistinction to a trial by the government. The jurors are drawn… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
I do not apologize for advertising. I think it is as vital to the preservation of freedom in my country as the… — Thomas Dillon Copy Share Image
An optimist is somebody who thinks our various political and social systems, schools and churches, support groups and Boy Scout troops, jury… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Thousands of people plead guilty to crimes every year in the United States because they know that the odds of a jury's… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I was very skeptical when he began, and there have been moments where I think he's shown absolute leadership, and I think… — Joe Eszterhas 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
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
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
“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
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
The only thing the defense has to do is take care of the client and see to it that they attack every… — Marcia Clark Copy Share Image
What many of those who oppose the use of juries in civil trials seem to ignore is that the founders of our… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in… — Pat Roberts Copy Share Image
We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
He that wrongs a friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast, Himself the… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
I've never been one to take glee in anyone's demise, and when I saw Jerry Sandusky walk out in handcuffs, I did… — Don Lemon Copy Share Image
In the past there has been debate as to whether or not traditional rights such as that to trial by jury might… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
There are lots of similarities between being a writer and a lawyer: to tell a story to a jury, hold their attention,… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
