Best Jury Lines
254 Jury quotes by 199 unique authors
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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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I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years.
— Paul Simon
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I think right now the jury is out on where and how much profit is available in the consumer electronics industry, because if you look…
— Kevin B. Rollins
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I have great faith in the jury system.
— Mills Lane
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One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can't do either one.
— Jeremy Sumpter
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The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a…
— Antonio Villaraigosa
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Along the way I have been able to choose some themes which ask questions - not necessarily force a message on anyone, but at least…
— Julie Walters
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"Write that down," the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them…
— Lewis Carroll
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The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try…
— Mark Twain
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Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?
— Stephen Ambrose
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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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The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.
— Joni Mitchell
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A jury could very well conclude that this is a case of buyer's remorse.
— Ken Buck
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Believe it or not, there are people who want to be on juries.
— Nancy Grace
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I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.
— Nancy Grace
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I have faith in the jury system.
— Nancy Grace
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This is a jury of your peers. They watch the same TV movies. They belong to Oprah’s Book Club. You can take any monster, slap…
— Jeremy Robert Johnson
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Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to.
— Chuck Robb
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The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me.
— Robert Breault
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Ways may someday be developed by which the government, without removing papers from secret drawers, can reproduce them in court, and by which it will…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Global warming ... may be a plaintiff lawyer's dream. And it's interesting, in a perverse way, to imagine how a jury in 2050 might react…
— David Ignatius
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The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art…
— Robert Henri
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The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.
— Philip Guston
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The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people…
— Harper Lee
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