Juries Quote by 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

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

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Nancy Grace

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

I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.

— Nancy Grace

Those who serve upon our juries have maintained a standard of fairness and excellence and demonstrated a vision toward the administration of justice that…

— Earl Warren

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

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

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

The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs…

— Winston Churchill

I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.

— Anonymous