Amount Quote by Zephyr Teachout

The kind of evidence that was put before the jurors led to less-than-rational decision-making. I think that juries are composed of good people who…

— Kenneth C. Frazier

Jurors have found, again and again, and at critical moments, according to what is their sense of the rational and just. If their sense…

— E. P. Thompson

The time has come for professional jurors.

— Joseph Wambaugh

Jurors realize that instead of having to make that terrible decision (voting for the death penalty), they can vote to put someone in prison…

— Robert Falcon Scott

When jurors are forced to spend day and night with each other, apart from their families and friends, they become a tribe unto themselves.…

— Marcia Clark

Jurors want courtroom lawyers to have some compassion and be nice.

— Johnnie Cochran

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

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

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

“Jury trials are really nothing more than poorly written stage plays. You’ve got two authors writing opposing narratives and a director who is paid…

— Elizabeth L. Silver

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

— Alexander Hamilton

Jury instructions are so numerous and complex, it's a wonder jurors ever wade through them. And so it should come as no surprise that…

— Marcia Clark