Beings Quote by Alan Dershowitz

Believe it or not, there are people who want to be on juries.

— Nancy Grace

Juries must, of necessity, be governed, in reaching many results through inferences from other facts, by certain laws of nature and human reason. They…

— Levi Woodbury

But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an accused person,…

— Lysander Spooner

The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.

— Thomas Jefferson

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 people who…

— Kenneth C. Frazier

Juries are the constitutional institution designed to protect ordinary citizens against the wealthy and powerful.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

I am sure from my experience of juries that, in a criminal case especially, they will obey the law as declared by the Judge;…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Jury instructions are so numerous and complex, it's a wonder jurors ever wade through them. And so it should come as no surprise that…

— Marcia Clark

The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs…

— Winston Churchill

Like other human institutions, courts and juries are not perfect. One cannot have a system of criminal punishment without accepting the possibility that someone…

— Antonin Scalia

What many of those who oppose the use of juries in civil trials seem to ignore is that the founders of our Nation considered…

— William Rehnquist

Had the jury convicted on proper instructions it would be the end of the matter. But juries are not bound by what seems inescapable…

— Robert H. Jackson