America Quote by David Simon

The murder clearance rate now in my city Baltimore is almost non-existent. Nobody can solve a murder, nobody can do any actual police work,…

— David Simon

Because jurors have an extraordinary amount of power over the situation and of the people and the story in front of them, they tend…

— Zephyr Teachout

[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…

— Thurgood Marshall

The time has come for professional jurors.

— Joseph Wambaugh

Jurors realize that instead of having to make that terrible decision (voting for the death penalty), they can vote to put someone in prison…

— Robert Falcon Scott

It has long been noticed that juries are pitiless for robbery and full of indulgence for infanticide. A question of interest, my dear Sir!…

— Edmond Francois Valentin About

Most criminologists today will acknowledge that crime rates and incarceration rates in the United States have had relatively little to do with each other.

— Michelle Alexander

Justice needs to be served, what I think people of Baltimore want more than anything else is the truth. That's what people around the…

— Barack Obama

Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between parties, and…

— Lysander Spooner

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

Believe it or not, there are people who want to be on juries.

— Nancy Grace

“we are in danger of becoming a society in which prosecutors alone become judges, juries and executioners because the threat of high sentences makes…

— Harvey Silverglate