Cases Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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

— Nancy Grace

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

— John Henry Wigmore

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Alexander Hamilton

Juries must, of necessity, be governed, in reaching many results through inferences from other facts, by certain laws of nature and human reason. They…

— Levi Woodbury

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

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

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

It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Had the jury convicted on proper instructions it would be the end of the matter. But juries are not bound by what seems inescapable…

— Robert H. Jackson