Jury Quotes - Page 14

• I don't want to live in a country that lies can prevail in court. Where you can walk into a courtroom and fabricate a story and then have appellate court judges uphold it after a jury has made a decision.

  Jesse Ventura

  Country, Lying, Court Judges

  "Former governor Jesse Ventura talks about new books ‘Marijuana Manifesto’ and ‘Shit Politicians Say,’ plus much more". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• Unfortunately I feel like a lot of the issues that the show [OJ Simpson ] was dealing with are still very much in the forefront of the American consciousness and the world consciousness today. Police misconduct was at the heart of the defense and Johnny Cochran did a masterful job at putting that defense at the forefront of the jury's conscience as opposed to the double homicide of Ron [Goldman] and Nicole [Brown Simpson].

  Sterling K. Brown

  Jobs, Heart, Issues

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• We've actually seen Black man murders [in] many a major city in the United States - New York City, St. Louis, Missouri, from Cleveland to Baltimore. It was those sorts of incidents that were very much prevalent in the forefront of that jury's conscience that allowed them to believe that this man [O.J. Simpson] could have been set up.

  Sterling K. Brown

  New York, Believe, Men

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Julian Assange shouldn't be the subject of a grand jury hearing, he should be given a medal. He's contributing to democracy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Democracy, Hearing, Should

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• Right to a speedy jury trial and so on and so forth. But what do they mean by 'person'? It certainly didn't mean individuals with flesh and blood like Native Americans who weren't persons, they don't have any rights.

  Noam Chomsky

  Native American, Mean, Rights

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• A woman was the property of her father or her husband and that remained true right into the twentieth century. It wasn't until 1975 that women had a guaranteed right to serve on federal juries.

  Noam Chomsky

  Husband, Father, Century

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• If I and other whistleblowers are sentenced to long years in prison without so much as a chance to explain our motivations to a jury, it will have a deeply chilling effect on future whistleblowers working as I did to expose government abuse and overreach. It will chill speech. It will corrode the quality of our democracy.

  Edward Snowden

  Motivation, Government, Years

  "Activists Launch Campaign Urging Obama To Pardon Edward Snowden". "All Things Considered" with David Welna, www.npr.org. September 14, 2016.

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• [Barack Obama] is sending more troops [to Afghanistan], but they have also realized that we are not going to win that war through guns and tanks. We have to engage the neighbors, and it is good that there is a non-military strategy in addition to a military strategy. It is, at least, encouraging. Whether it will work or not, the jury is still put.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Military, War, Gun

  Source: www.diablomag.com

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• A great deal remains to be done in Afghanistan and the jury is out as to whether the international community has the commitment and the patience to see the rebuilding process through.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Commitment, Community, Done

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

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• I would go to trials a lot in Boston, as best I could. And it's incredible that, like, lawyers that had a good case weren't dramatic at all. Lawyers that had a horrible case would sing and dance and do whatever it took to convince the jury or the judge that this guy was innocent. So that was a cool thing to see because that made me believe that what the script [of From The Hip] was doing was totally believable. Now, maybe not ordinary. But it could happen.

  Judd Nelson

  Believe, Boston, Judging

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When Blacks got the right to vote, white women got the right to sit on juries.

  Jesse Jackson

  White, Vote, Right To Vote

  Source: praisecharlotte.hellobeautiful.com

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• To simply say that black people made allegations that substantiated an unfair and selective prosecution where you had more than half of the counts thrown out, where you had 27 counts where it took the jury less than four hours to find them not guilty - that speaks to fact that here we have three civil-rights activists, acquitted. What we have here is a prosecution that was baseless, a prosecution that chilled African Americans right to vote.

  Cornell William Brooks

  Rights, People, African American

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I would like people to remember that I kept the peace when I was president and I worked for peace, that I espoused human rights in its broadest definition, not only freedom of speech but freedom of assembly, freedom of worship and trial by jury but also the right of people for people to have a decent home to live, food to eat, employment, healthcare, self respect, dignity. So I think the broad gamut of human rights, peace and freedom. I would like to be remembered for those things to the degree that I deserve it and I still have a long way to go.

  Jimmy Carter

  Home, Thinking, Self

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• For the rest of their lives, [black men] can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries, and legally discriminated against in employment, housing, access to education and public benefits. So many of the old forms of discrimination that we supposedly left behind during the Jim Crow era are suddenly legal again once you've been branded a felon.

  Michelle Alexander

  Men, Black, Crow

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Most men I know adore women, and I am including gay men. I think studies on jury selection show that the biggest critics of women - people less likely to trust their character or judgment - are women.

  Gene Weingarten

  Character, Gay, Men

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I have made a career out of arguing that we shouldn't be criminalizing political differences. I've made a career out of arguing that the grand jury is an abusive institution. I have made a career out of arguing that we shouldn't stretch and expand the criminal law. I'm not going to change it because you think these are abnormal times. When Thomas Jefferson told the Justice Department that they had to prosecute Aaron Burr, and that he was going to have the chief justice impeached unless he found Aaron Burr guilty, those were special times too.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Thinking, Justice, Political

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• On a certain level, we don't try enough cases. We should try more cases before juries and let jurors decide. On grand juries, my position is the grand jury should be eliminated, but there are creative ways a lawyer can use a grand jury if they have a client with a sympathetic cause who has been wronged by the police.

  Lynne Stewart

  Creative, Police, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think right now the jury is out on where and how much profit is available in the consumer electronics industry, because if you look at the current consumer electronics players, the biggest ones on the planet struggle to make profit consistently.

  Kevin B. Rollins

  Struggle, Player, Thinking

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• The progress of science in furnishing the government with means of espionage is not likely to stop with wire tapping. Ways may some day be developed by which the government, without removing papers from secret drawers, can reproduce them in court, and by which it will be enabled to expose to a jury the most intimate occurrences of the home. Advances in the psychic and related sciences may bring means of exploring unexpressed beliefs, thoughts and emotions. 'That places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer' was said by James Otis of much lesser intrusions than these.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Home, Government, Secret

  "Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438". Dissenting opinion, 1928.

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