Decision Quote by Sharon Cooper

“But just take the jurists' side for a moment: why, in fact, should a trial be supposed to have two possible outcomes when our…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet…

— Nellie Bly

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

On a certain level, we don't try enough cases. We should try more cases before juries and let jurors decide. On grand juries, my…

— Lynne Stewart

The grand solid merit of jury trial is that the jurors ... are selected at the last moment from the multitude of citizens. They…

— John Henry Wigmore

Putting pressure on grand juries to indict in my view is un-American. A grand jury should be allowed to be fair and impartial. They…

— Rudy Giuliani

Hopefully, America will really get a sense of how justice can be served in this country. And hopefully, they'll forget the Simpson trial.

— Andrew Cohen

That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.

— Andrew Thomas

I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.

— Noam Chomsky

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

— Abraham Lincoln

“Nothing is more excruciating than waiting for the jury's verdict. Except, perhaps, hearing the jury's verdict.”

— Richard Paul Evans