Top 1200 Grand Jury Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

My first year on 'SNL', I made $90,000 dollars. And I bought a red Corvette for $45,000 dollars. I'm thinking, 'I've got 45 grand left!' Taxes didn't even come into my equation. At the end of the first year of making 90 grand I was 25, 30 in the hole. We live in this baller, spend-money culture.

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.

Trial by jury must be preserved. It is the best system ever invented for a free people in the world's history.

But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling upward of twenty miles per second, required a fraction of a second. No offense to Grand Canyon lovers, but for my money, Meteor Crater is the most amazing natural landmark in the world.

Your job as a trial attorney is to try to convey to the jury the essence of the people you represent.

I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty.

Life is not mean, it is grand; if it is mean to any, he or she makes it so. God made it glorious. It is paved with diamonds; its banks he fringed with flowers. He overarched it with stars. Around it He spread the glory of the physical universe-suns, moon, worlds, constellations, systems-all that is magnificent in motion, sublime in magnitude, and grand in order and obedience. God would not have attended life with this broad march of grandeur if it did not mean something.

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

A lawsuit with no legal precedent, seeking no damages, from no jury, in the name of stopping something that isn't happening? Only in New York.

Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.

The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal.

Fundamental protections, the assumption of innocence, trial by jury, and the right to appear before a court have all been sacrificed on the altar of the E.U. superstate.

Originally I was supposed to do Grand Prix, but I was under contract to 20th Century Fox at that time and Alex North was supposed to do Sand Pebbles, but he got sick, so Fox preempted me out of Grand Prix, and to my good fortune, I got to do Sand Pebbles. It was my first time working with Robert Wise and it was a great experience.

I had so much fun touring the Grand Canyon area with the Sierra Club. I love to get outdoors and enjoy nature. We went kayaking, mountain biking, hiking, and even rode mules. To do all these things in one of the most stunning natural areas in the world just made it more amazing. I don't believe that anyone can see the Grand Canyon area for themselves and not know that we have to do everything we can to protect it for future generations.

I suffer mornings most of all I feel so powerless and small By ten o'clock I'm back in bed Fighting the jury in my head

Any good trial lawyer knows that if you've got one credible expert or scientific study, then you can let the jury decide.

The world is not a courtroom There is no judge no jury no plaintiff. This is a caravan filled with eccentric beings telling wondrous stories about God.

I had only been a citizen for two weeks when I received a summons to appear for jury duty!

There was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by the advocates for a Bill of Rights and trial by jury.

Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him.

I think people need to stop looking at trying to be the judge, the jury and executioner and let the system do its job.

One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can't do either one.

Loyalty is that for the lack of which your gang will shoot you without benefit of trial by jury.

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives.

Drone attacks subvert the rule of law - we become judge, jury, and executioner - at the push of a button.

The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

What individual can so well assess the amount of damages which a plaintiff ought to recover for an injury he has received than an intelligent jury?

I obviously want to win a grand slam, but whatever I do, however long I play, I hope I sustain a really long career, a healthy one, just a pretty consistent career. I obviously want to win a grand slam.

When you analyze all the data, there is a warming trend according to science. But the jury is out on the degree of how much is manmade.

We have seen many instances where Malayali actors missed out on the awards when some of the jury members were from the state.

The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

My sentence formally was imposed on my mothers 50th Birthday January 24th 1983. The jury recommended it July 1st 1982.

History has got a lot to do with unique circumstances under certain particular cases and grand theories will always find counter cases. I don't think that people whose expertise lies in one thing should try to make grand theories about something (a) where it's very hard to get the evidence to prove that you're right and (b) where it's much too easy to make up stories that seem right.

Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

Being a journalist, I never feel bad talking to journalism students because it’s a grand, grand caper. You get to leave, go talk to strangers, ask them anything, come back, type up their stories, edit the tape. That’s not gonna retire your loans as quickly as it should, and it’s not going to turn you into a person who’s worried about what kind of car they should buy, but that’s kind of as it should be. I mean, it beats working.

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.

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

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.

The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.

My dad, Bob Blum, used to dash across Grand Central's main terminal catwalk several times daily as a young CBS correspondent, running copy from newsroom to studio and back - because CBS' first broadcasts were from Grand Central Terminal. The pictures on people's television sets used to shake when the trains came in!

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.

Jury verdicts, basketball games, and even music are enough to set off black rage, it seems.

At least in America, the narrative is I'm a Cannes favorite. But, in fact, I've had my best experience in Venice, both with the audience and the jury.

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.

The best jury of your peers that you’ll ever find is…well, you. Only you know what you’re capable of and what you want to be.

It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any evidence except that which the law allows.

The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.

The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.

We are not a court - not a judge or jury at work - but we've tried to apply the highest possible standards of rigorous analysis to the evidence where we make a criticism.

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life's solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth.

I have looked on scenery as a strange and on scenery more grand, but on scenery at once so strange and so grand I have never looked and probably never shall again.