Best Jury Proverbs
254 Jury quotes by 199 unique authors
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During my jury selection process, we went through over 360 jurors. It took six months, all New York residents. Of the 360 jurors, over half…
— Bernhard Goetz
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As I said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, I think Ferguson laid bare a problem that is not unique to…
— Barack Obama
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The duty of the grand jury is to separate fact from fiction, after a full and impartial examination of all the evidence involved, and decide…
— Robert P. McCulloch
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No one can just file a charge and go directly to a jury trial. That just cannot happen.
— Robert P. McCulloch
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In Staten Island, when you have video showing the alleged chokehold used on Eric Garner, why not go to trial and have the officer(s) explain…
— Al Sharpton
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Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the…
— David Josiah Brewer
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There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think…
— Martin Seligman
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The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
— Robert Frost
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Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the wide circle of…
— Joseph Howe
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The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
— Samuel Chase
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We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury.
— Ben Bradlee
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Yeah, 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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I am finally glad to see that the jury is looking at me.
— Gary Gilmore
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The values of confidentiality of matters occurring before the grand jury is very important.
— Ken Starr
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Every trial lawyer knows what it is like to sit patiently while the other side puts on its case. Inevitably they make a few points…
— Eliot Spitzer
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When I was at the CIA I asked my civilian advisory board to tackle some tough questions. Among the toughest: In a political culture that…
— Michael Hayden
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In our system, we leave questions of fact to a jury. But to render a verdict, a jury must know the law. For this, we…
— Alafair Burke
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No court presumes to tell a jury that they are to try a capital case with the same indifference and unconcern as to consequences, that…
— Lysander Spooner
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I'll be judge, I'll be jury,' said cunning old Fury: 'I'll try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.
— Lewis Carroll
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A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance
— Herbert Spencer
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jury-men may dine
— Alexander Pope
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The jury has a right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy
— John Gay
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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have…
— Unknown Author
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You kin never tell what a woman or a country jury is goin' to do.
— Kin Hubbard
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Rather be judged by my jury, not a jury of my peers.
— Lil Wayne
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