A Quote by Sergio De La Pava

I pretended I had urgent business at the prosecutor's table which, in one of The System's obvious tells, was always millimeters from the jury box.

Sergio De La Pava

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Sergio De La Pava
American - Novelist
Born: 1970

We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

Larry McDonald

In America, freedom and justice have always come from the ballot box, the jury box, and when that fails, the cartridge box.

Steve Symms

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Sunny Hostin

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Frederick Douglass

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Frederick Douglass

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Ambrose Bierce

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William Safire

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Harper Lee

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor.

Donella Meadows

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor

Donella Meadows

In my sport, we're measured in millimeters and fractions of millimeters.

Matt Emmons

We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness. All of the things that Shadow had done in his life of which he was not proud, all the things he wished he had done otherwise or left undone, came at him then in a swirling storm of guilt and regret and shame, and he had nowhere to hide from them. He was as naked and as open as a corpse on a table, and dark Anubis the jackal god was his prosector and his prosecutor and his persecutor.

Neil Gaiman

Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to.

Chuck Robb

In our system, grand juries take every charge, every lie, and they try to sort the truth from the lies, and then they move forward into the system. And that's how the system ought to work. We should respect the secrecy of the grand jury so they can sort through what's true and what's not. And someone is leaking, and if they are leaking from the grand jury investigation, then that's a violation of the law.