Quotes of: Jury-duty Keyword

I vote and I do jury duty.

Christopher Hitchens

It's rare to find someone excited over jury duty. If they're out there, I've never met them. Not a one. When the summons for jury duty arrives in the mail, how many people scream, 'Yes!' and run to clear the calendar? None. Our first and only reactio...

Regina Brett

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

Nina Garcia

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

Dan Castellaneta

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

Liam Neeson

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

John Mortimer

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

Trey Gowdy

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

David O. Russell

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

P. J. O'Rourke

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

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

In our system, we leave questions of fact to a jury. But to render a verdict, a jury must know the law. For this, we rely upon jury instructions. Instructions are supposed to translate the law into lay terms that the jury can apply to the facts as th...

Alafair Burke

I was a fat kid who didn't discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we're supposed to be imprinted with a love of movement. That means that I'd rather be called for jury duty than go to the gym, but I go anyway.

Victoria Moran

The duty of the grand jury is to separate fact from fiction, after a full and impartial examination of all the evidence involved, and decide if evidence supported the filing of any criminal charges against Darren Wilson. They accepted and completed t...

Robert P. McCulloch

So far, I've never missed a deadline for a term paper, a review, a manuscript. I perform the mumbo-jumbo of voting with belief in my heart, I've not yet won even a jaywalking ticket, and unlike my father, whom I fault in this respect, I refrain from ...

William T. Vollmann

The trial by jury might safely be introduced into a despotic government, if the jury were to exercise no right of judging of the law, or the justice of the law.

Lysander Spooner

Judge: [after Ness has discovered Capone bribed the jury to acquit him] Bailiff, I want you to go next door to Judge Hawton's court, where they've just begun hearing a divorce action. I want you to bring that jury in here, and take this jury to his c...

The Untouchables

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

Donella Meadows

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

Ken Starr

[D.A. Trotter is making his preliminary remarks to the jury] D.A. Jim Trotter: You're the jury. It's your job to decide who's telling the truth. Truth. That's what 'verdict' means. It's a word comes down from Old England and all our little old ancest...

My Cousin Vinny

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

Vincent Bugliosi