Jury Quotes

I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed.

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

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

I have great faith in the jury system.

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

We look in... Germany for a superstar. We began with 10,000 people, which applied. From these 10,000, 100 was selected. The jury is unbelievably competent.

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

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

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

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.

That D.C. grand jury investigation of Abramoff can't go on forever. Eventually the lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses with some decisions about just who they want to indict. That's when Al Gonzales will have to show his cards.

We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.

It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.

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

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.

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

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

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

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical.

I vote and I do jury duty.

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.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance.

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

There's a lot of money with a lot of big law firms that have a tremendous amount at stake by getting the right language to convince the right jury that my client is either innocent or that the opposition is guilty.