Top 1200 Trial By Jury Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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

Science advances by trial and error. When mistakes are made, the peer-review publication process usually roots them out. Cuccinelli's version of the scientific process would be "make an error and go to trial." Einstein did not arrive at E=mc2 in his first attempt. If he were working in the state of Virginia under Cuccinelli today, he could be jailed for his initial mistakes and perhaps never achieve that landmark equation.

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

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

The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.

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

Life is like jury duty. Just do it and get it over with.

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

Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter.

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

I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.

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

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.

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.

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

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

I've had something like seven films at Sundance, one of which won the Grand Jury Prize.

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

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

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

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

Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.

I never had a trial I wanted to have, but I never had trial I wasn't glad I had.

Jury lawlessness is the greatest corrective of law in its actual administration.

I don't believe anyone has leaked grand jury information.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

When you see a lawyer trying to pick a smart jury, you know he's got a strong case.

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

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

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.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. It's not like the sheep was underage.

No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.

A grand jury would 'indict a ham sandwich,' if that's what you wanted.

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

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

There's no cap on success. The jury stays out till you take your last breath.

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

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

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

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

He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.

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

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

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

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

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