Top 1200 Judge And Jury Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Pay close attention to when you're being the real you & when you're trying to impress an invisible jury.

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

If we start exposing what gets said in a grand jury, you won't get anybody to testify.

We are not living up to Thomas Jefferson's idea of what a trial by jury means.

You can't judge a book by its cover until you open up and read it. There are going be a million stories out there, true or not true. I say get to know me first before you judge me.

The values of confidentiality of matters occurring before the grand jury is very important.

I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years.

Ah, I am the judge of dreams, and you are the judge of love. Well, I find you guilty of dreaming good dreams, and sentence you to a lifetime of working and suffering for the sake of your dreams. I only hope that someday you won't declare me innocent of the crime of loving you.

We need to be open minded to understand that there are lots of different levels of things going on and we shouldn't be so quick to judge - and certainly not to judge a whole race, a whole religion or a whole people - and a lot of that is going on.

If a jury of your peers finds you not guilty, I will reinstate you back into baseball.

The jury is still out on whether humans are causing climate change.

The judge turned his back towards me, sitting back on his judge's chair, while I was in the witness stand being questioned. The whole courtroom was full of these anarchists, leftists, communists and Jewish lobbyists.

Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.

Revelation in matters where reason cannot judge, or but probably, ought to be hearkened to. First, Whatever proposition is revealed, of whose truth our mind, by its natural faculties and notions, cannot judge, that is purely matter of faith, and above reason.

A jury could very well conclude that this is a case of buyer's remorse.

You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment.

I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate.

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

Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they're just looking for sheep that are easily impressed.

I have never served on a jury because MPs were exempted - or banned, I think.

Prosecutors have absolutely no control over what witnesses say when they leave the grand jury room.

I always wait until a jury has spoken before I anticipate what they will do.

I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.

A drunk was in front of a judge. The judge says "You've been brought here for drinking." The drunk says "Okay, let's get started.

The real challenge to upholding India's freedoms is how patchy and individual-driven it is when it comes to the judiciary. The system is so arranged that instead of legal precedent and case law setting the template for the court's interventions, the idea of justice is guided by what Judge A or Judge B may think.

The Oscar nominations are out, and they're so white a grand jury has decided not to indict them.

The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes the worst cigars.

The jury is out as to whether the Afghans are up to the task of protecting their people.

Serving jury duty is a fascinating little slice of life, with its motley crew of personalities.

Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.

That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it.

You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment

If you're gonna judge people by crimes, you get into a quagmire. If you're gonna judge people by themselves, by who and what they are, that's a different ballgame.

So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.

The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.

If you were summoned for jury duty and you didn't show up, what would happen? You'd be in jail!

I can't describe the feeling I got the first time I won a jury award for an injured person.

You can judge the fact that I like video games or wine or love basketball or like going fishing. You can judge all that. But there are certain things that you can't, and I think people are figuring that out. Me, being from the old school, I figured that out early.

Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.

Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial.

A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government.

We have a Bill of Rights, we have trial by jury. We have a notion that you are - you're innocent until you're proven guilty. We have all these things.

You can never judge any music by their audience. That's the main reason people in England have a prejudice against someone like Skrillex. You judge people by their music. That's always been first and foremost.

I don't judge my characters, and that's my job not to judge them. It's my job to treat them with respect and to just look at it from their point of view.

Nobody must judge me based on my decisions, and only my knowledge and education must be the criteria to judge me.

Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.

Critics are entitled to have an opinion, but how can they judge how comfortable a building is? No critic is smart enough to judge how a building will perform over time.

I purposely don't put my family on there, I don't put my kids on there. Because I think these days everybody wants to share everything - and then they get upset when people judge all their stuff. So, I figure let them judge things that you're okay with them judging.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

I don't believe we need a good conservative judge, and I don't believe we need a good liberal judge. I subscribe to the Justice Potter Stewart standard. He was a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. And he said the mark of a good judge, good justice, is that when you're reading their decision, their opinion, you can't tell if it's written by a man or woman, a liberal or a conservative, a Muslim, a Jew or a Christian. You just know you're reading a good judicial decision.

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

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

No person shall be restrained of his liberty but by regular process from a court of justice, authorized by a general law. . . . On complaint of an unlawful imprisonment to any judge whatsoever, he shall have the prisoner immediately brought before him and shall discharge him if his imprisonment be unlawful. The officer in whose custody the prisoner is shall obey the order of the judge, and both judge and officer shall be responsible civilly and criminally for a failure of duty herein.

You might be a redneck if you missed 5th grade graduation because you had jury duty.

You want a judge who makes objective decisions, and that's why temperament is such an important component of being a judge. You have to earn people's respect, because they know that you are deciding the case based on the facts and the law, not because they're trying to be your friend.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Every year, the Giller jury is different. You write the best book you can and throw it out there.

Some runners judge performance by whether they won or lost. Others define success or failure by how fast they ran. Only you can judge your performance. Avoid letting others sit in judgment of you.

They just brought it up to me and said, 'Hey, this is what we're going to do.' They're going to put out a section and call it Judge's Chambers and give them little judge outfits, and we'll see what happens. I think it turned out great.