Juries Quotes
43 quotes by 36 authors
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It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the power and duty…
— Lysander Spooner
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Women should not be allowed on juries where the accused is a stud.
— Rush Limbaugh
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[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
— Thurgood Marshall
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If I had killed somebody, it wouldn't have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But f-ing, you see, and the young girls.…
— Roman Polanski
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As a private person, I have a passion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard. Where every prospect pleases, man…
— David Ogilvy
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Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for its correction not…
— Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
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Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the…
— Pat Roberts
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I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
— Vincent Bugliosi
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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 can…
— Kenneth C. Frazier
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In our system, grand juries take every charge, every lie, and they try to sort the truth from the lies, and then they move forward…
— Paul Begala
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When the link between the use of unsafe, mercury-laden vaccine and autism, ADHD, asthma, allergies and diabetes becomes undeniable, mainstream medicine will be sporting a…
— Bernard Rimland
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I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.
— Rick Moody
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The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Jews can't serve on juries because they insist they're guilty.
— Cathy Ladman
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As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system-the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges-would take care of…
— Scott Turow
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What many of those who oppose the use of juries in civil trials seem to ignore is that the founders of our Nation considered the…
— William Rehnquist
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Any test that turns on what is offensive to the communitys standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to be…
— William O. Douglas
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Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day.
— Johnnie Cochran
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I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.
— Bernardine Dohrn
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