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

— Nancy Grace

What many of those who oppose the use of juries in civil trials seem to ignore is that the founders of our Nation considered…

— William Rehnquist

“Judge not,' it has been said, but being a juryman can be a pleasant occupation when one is not weighing up human actions and…

— Claudio Magris

I am sure from my experience of juries that, in a criminal case especially, they will obey the law as declared by the Judge;…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.

— Thomas Jefferson

I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.

— Anonymous

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

Like other human institutions, courts and juries are not perfect. One cannot have a system of criminal punishment without accepting the possibility that someone…

— Antonin Scalia

Juries are the constitutional institution designed to protect ordinary citizens against the wealthy and powerful.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an accused person,…

— 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

“(...) juries should ask not "Is he guilty?" but rather "Is he dangerous?”

— Julian Barnes