Quotes of: Jury-duty Keyword

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

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

Joseph Wambaugh

And For You Zero, A Life Sized Vudu Doll" -Kaname Kuran "I DONT WANT IT!" -Zero Kiryu "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA" -Juri Elizabeth Marin

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

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

That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

The Golden Compass

You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.

Scenes of Clerical Life

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

The Sphere and Duties of Woman: A Course of Lectures

Caring for our veterans is the duty of a grateful nation. Unfortunately, the Bush administration and congressional Republicans have not lived up to this duty.

Patty Murray

Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.

Tryon Edwards

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and the manner of discharging those duties are outside the purview of government.

Roy Moore

We are being tough in saying it is a duty on the unemployed in future not only to be available for work - and not to shirk work - but also to get the skills for work. That is a new duty we are introducing.

Gordon Brown