Bounds Quote by Harlan F. Stone

Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction . . . if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction…

— Alexander Hamilton

It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own opinion, judgment, and…

— John Adams

It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though…

— John Adams

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

There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the power and…

— Lysander Spooner

The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.

— Lysander Spooner

The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to…

— Mark Twain

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

Law and justice are from time to time inevitably in conflict ... . The jury ... adjusts the general rule of law to the…

— John Henry Wigmore

Since natural law was thought to be accessible to the ordinary man, the theory invited each juror to inquire for himself whether a particular…

— John Adams

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

“Law is all that separates us from barbarism and the howling within; it is a necessary leash on our darker natures. The same should…

— Kevin Hearne