Clear Quote by Alexander Hamilton

It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own opinion, judgment, and…

— John Adams

It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though…

— John Adams

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

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

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

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

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

If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural god-given unalienable…

— Harlan F. Stone

Jurors have found, again and again, and at critical moments, according to what is their sense of the rational and just. If their sense…

— E. P. Thompson

A jury is more apt to be unbiased and independent than a court, but they very seldom stand up against strong public clamor. Judges…

— Clarence Darrow

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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