Quotes of: Grand-jury Keyword

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

Robert Frost

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

Thurgood Marshall

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

Liam Neeson

If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.

Lysander Spooner

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

John Mortimer

The jury system was somewhat of an anomaly, like everything else in the law.

HOA Wire

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.

H. L. Mencken

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

Trey Gowdy

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

Joseph Wambaugh

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Matsuri Hino

I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.

Nancy Grace

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.

Lysander Spooner

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

Martha Beck

Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day.

Johnnie Cochran

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

David O. Russell

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

George Plimpton

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

Jeremy Sumpter

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

Johnny Kelly

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.

Frans de Waal

No one can just file a charge and go directly to a jury trial. That just cannot happen.

Robert P. McCulloch