Quotes of: Grand-jury Keyword

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

P. J. O'Rourke

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.

Michelle Hunziker

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

Edmund Barton

Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.

P. J. O'Rourke

From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.

Harper Lee

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

Luther Burbank

In a sinful world, no community can exist for long where nobody is ever held accountable: no teacher would grade a student's performance; no citizen would sit on a jury or call a failed leader to account.

Lewis B. Smedes

It is such a special feeling to win a grand prix.

Jenson Button

Eddie: Twenty grand, open. "Hatchet" Harry: Thirty thousand. Back to you, already-Eddie. Eddie: Fifty grand. "Hatchet" Harry: Eighty grand. Eddie: One hundred grand. Player: Whoa, whoa, whoa, look fellas, I know... "Hatchet" Harry: I know you're not ...

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

M. Gustave: Why do you want to be a lobby boy? Zero: Well, who wouldn't - at the Grand Budapest, sir. It's an institution.

The Grand Budapest Hotel

The buffalo beauty contest ultimately Is the judgement of the buffaloes on beauty As well as the judgment of the jury If they are as smart as the buffaloes. (Honor of grassland)

Living In Differences

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

Joseph Wambaugh

No court presumes to tell a jury that they are to try a capital case with the same indifference and unconcern as to consequences, that they would a case where the results of their decision would be less important.

Lysander Spooner

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

Mark McKinnon

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.

Norm Crosby

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.

Byron White

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.

Antonio Villaraigosa

There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people that argue on the web for hours about who their favorite character on 'Friends' is.

Jon Stewart

The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

Alan Dershowitz

I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.

Rick Moody

Ain't nothing but 10 grand. What's 10 grand to me?

Randy Moss