Top 1200 Trial By Jury Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Because of a jury-rigged and outdated system meant to track deaths, the government has trouble determining exactly which Americans are deceased.

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'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.

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.

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.

Julian Assange shouldn't be the subject of a grand jury hearing, he should be given a medal. He's contributing to democracy.

I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.

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

I have contact with no one involved in the trial.

I'm an old trial lawyer.

When the American people saw the LA riots and crowds of Blacks cheering O.J. Simpson (who was acquitted by the almost all Black jury), they received a peek into their future.

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.

There may sometimes be a mistake, but I think that the citizens of America who are sworn to uphold their duty in a jury setting are going to try to do their best to do that regardless of the consequences.

In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked

Wherever there's hope there's a trial.

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.

I have heard stories of how the Malayali jury members trying to play down actors from our own state, stating various reasons.

The jury could get the case as early as next week, but the defense says they just want to introduce one last-minute load of crap.

The whole trial seemed surreal.

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

The Sixth Amendment secures to persons charged with crime the right to be tried by an impartial jury reflecting a fair cross-section of the community.

In every trial Let understanding fight for you.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I made mistakes in every trial.

It is not strange that some of our revoltes preach trial marriage: for the only safe way to marry them at all would be on trial. Until you had definitely experienced all the human situations with them, you would have no means of knowing how, in any given situation, they would behave. They might conform about evening-dress, and throw plates between courses; they might be charming to your friends, and ask the waiter to sit down and finish dinner with you. Or they might in all things, little and big, be irreproachable. The point is that you would never know.

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.

Even the best guys in the sport have losses on their record, and Myles Jury, I just feel like he's coming up into that reality check with me.

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 have fully cooperated with the investigation and before the grand jury, and I'm quite confident at the end of the day that we'll know what facts are in this particular case.

Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

I met with a bad bout after the trial was over, and while the trial was on I habit of stopping by the liquor store and buying a bottle of wine every night. Just to forget the days courtroom proceedings. Then the next morning I'd get up, go to court again and do it all over again. Well, by 1985, I was a fall down, low bottom drunk. An alcoholic. And in 1989, I finally got sober. And I found the rooms of a 12 Step Recovery Program. And I diligently worked those 12 Steps, and I have changed my life dramatically. I'm happily married. I converted to Christianity.

All the ingenuity, all the high-tech gear, all the jury-rigging sometimes the sea would rip it all away until there was only you, the Creator, and His mercy.

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

The greater the trial, the sweeter the victory.

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

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

To-morrow would bring its own trial with it; so would the next day, and so would the next; each its own trial, and yet the very same that was now so unutterably grievous to be borne. The days of the far-off future would toil onward, still with the same burden for her to take up, and bear along with her, but never to fling down; for the accumulating days, and added years, would pile up their misery upon the heap of shame.

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

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.

Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant.

God can judge me, I don't need a jury. Nothing standing in my way, like nothing's my security.

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

We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury.

A great deal remains to be done in Afghanistan and the jury is out as to whether the international community has the commitment and the patience to see the rebuilding process through.

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.

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

If I had it to do again, I would less often judge myself and more often ask for a jury.

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

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

In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked.

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?

This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.