Grand jury Quote by Michael Parenti Download Open image “One mechanism of repression is the grand jury.” — Michael Parenti ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Grand jury Jury Mechanism Political Repression
The grand jury process is secretive for a reason, to protect the safety and anonymity of all the grand jurors, witnesses, and innocent persons… — Daniel Cameron Copy Share Image
I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest. — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
In our system, grand juries take every charge, every lie, and they try to sort the truth from the lies, and then they move… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
Prosecutors are allowed to cherry-pick what evidence, if any, that they do present to a grand jury. So the grand jury process overall is… — Sharon Cooper Copy Share Image
Manufacturing evidence to justify arbitrary, politically motivated detentions is a common tool of the illegitimate former Maduro regime. — Morgan Ortagus Copy Share Image
The duty of the grand jury is to separate fact from fiction, after a full and impartial examination of all the evidence involved, and… — Robert P. McCulloch Copy Share Image
The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The grand jury's job is not to weigh the evidence from both sides; it is only to decide whether there is enough evidence on… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
If we start exposing what gets said in a grand jury, you won't get anybody to testify. — Dan Donovan Copy Share Image
Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A nation as such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their taxes, give to… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
All economic and political institutions are contrivances that should serve the interests of the people. When they fail to do so, they should be… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
[The ruling elites] know who their enemies are, and their enemies are the people, the people at home and the people abroad. Their enemies… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Even though the crime rate has dropped in recent years, the United States has more police per capita then any other nation in the… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather then… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Candidates who win while spending less than their opponents still usually have to spend quite a lot. While not a surefire guarantor of victory,… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet. — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased. — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
In almost every enterprise, government has provided business with opportunities for private gain at public expense. Government nurtures private capital accumulation through a process… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks,… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
A federal grand jury is investigating allegations that David Copperfield raped, assaulted and threatened a woman he took to his private island in the… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
The police were also ready with more formidable tools of intimidation. The office also assigned a veteran homicide prosecutor to oversee the investigation. All… — Wolf Blitzer Copy Share Image
More details coming out about Michael Jackson. It seems his 13-year-old accuser testified before a grand jury that Michael had seven locks on his… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
So the fact that the grand jury would come back and make the decision not to indict the jailers and not make a decision… — Sharon Cooper Copy Share Image
I did answer all of the questions put to me today, ... Nothing in my testimony in any way contradicted the strong denials that… — John Podesta Copy Share Image
If the author of the Declaration of Independence were to utter such a sentiment today, the Post Office Department could exclude him from the… — Frank I. Cobb Copy Share Image
Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to. — Chuck Robb Copy Share Image
In our system, grand juries take every charge, every lie, and they try to sort the truth from the lies, and then they move… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
I have ever had the single aim of justice in view. No judge who is influenced by any other consideration is fit for the… — Isaac Parker Copy Share Image
I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn’t. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Julian Assange shouldn't be the subject of a grand jury hearing, he should be given a medal. He's contributing to democracy. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Prosecutors are allowed to cherry-pick what evidence, if any, that they do present to a grand jury. So the grand jury process overall is… — Sharon Cooper Copy Share Image
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