Lazy people know how to avoid jury duty, then again, who needs a jury ? — Grass Hopper Copy Share Image
Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to. — Chuck Robb Copy Share Image
Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day. — Johnnie Cochran Copy Share Image
I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial. — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
“The Press is the living jury of the Nation." James Gordon Bennett, editor of the New York Herald in 1841” — Daniel Stashower Copy Share Image
Your job as a trial attorney is to try to convey to the jury the essence of the people you represent. — Kenneth Frazier Copy Share Image
Describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial: These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
My point is you've been given a powerful blessing in life in this country to be able to vote and to be… — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
My sentence formally was imposed on my mothers 50th Birthday January 24th 1983. The jury recommended it July 1st 1982. — Nick Yarris Copy Share Image
When you go into court, you are putting yourself in the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out… — DaniAlla And Her BFF Copy Share Image
Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
“Emotions are reserved for juries and, in that case, a good lawyer can really lay them on when the time is right,… — Kenneth Eade Copy Share Image
But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these… — Thomas Jefferson 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
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“A jury is always a more orthodox body than any defendant brought before it; for blacks it is usually a whiter group,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The first thought that occurred to me, that night when I heard the chairman of the jury announce my name, was, Just… — John Banville Copy Share Image
In Staten Island, when you have video showing the alleged chokehold used on Eric Garner, why not go to trial and have… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process that allows the police to… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The progress of science in furnishing the government with means of espionage is not likely to stop with wire tapping. Ways may… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
“AS IT TURNED out, Rylann wasn’t quite as good as she’d thought she was. Over the last five years she’d prosecuted cases,… — Julie James Copy Share Image
“In the 20th century, it became more and more the norm for judges to incorrectly instruct juries that they must consider only… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“My worst fears from jury selection manifested themselves in the verdict. This jury needed someone to tell them exactly how Caylee died.… — Jeff Ashton Copy Share Image
Our world is not an optimal place, fine tuned by omnipotent forces of selection. It is a quirky mass of imperfections, working… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Of all my prosecutorsnot one is my peer, but each and all are my political sovereigns; and had your honor submitted my… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“The prosecution is supposed to tell the defense every detail of their case, their evidence , witnesses, everything. But the defense doesn't… — William Bernhardt Copy Share Image
