Jurors Quotes
32 quotes by 26 authors
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Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.
— Ray Bradbury
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Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction . . . if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way effected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant…
— Byron White
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I now see that it is possible that I can receive a fair trial even with Americans as jurors,
— Zacarias Moussaoui
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I had thought I would be sentenced to death based on the emotions and anger toward me for the deaths on Sept. 11. But after…
— Zacarias Moussaoui
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I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I did not see any major issues other than the jury substitutions. I can't know whether there's a problem there, until I read the transcript…
— Catherine Crier
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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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[Jurors who are opposed to capital punishment are] more likely to believe that a defendant's failure to testify is indicative of his guilt, more hostile…
— Thurgood Marshall
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It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the…
— David Simon
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I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Justice requires lawyers who are prepared, witnesses who tell the truth, judges who know the law, and jurors who stay awake. Justice is the North…
— Paul Levine
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A Seattle lawyer once interrupted his lengthy cross-examination of a witness and exclaimed, "Your Honor, one of the jurors is asleep." "You put him to…
— James Keller
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Jurors realize that instead of having to make that terrible decision (voting for the death penalty), they can vote to put someone in prison and…
— Robert Falcon Scott
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Before we condemn the jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman, we should remember that they were asked to do something extraordinary. They were asked to listen…
— Alafair Burke
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The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike…
— Winston Churchill
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May your wife and children get raped, right in the ass. (to the jurors who convicted her)
— Aileen Wuornos
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[N]o American should retreat an inch on the right of jurors to acquit if they perceive the law or its administration to be unjust.
— Charley Reese
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Jurors want courtroom lawyers to have some compassion and be nice.
— Johnnie Cochran
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