Jury Quotes - Page 5

• Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fate, Clients, Depends

  Abraham Lincoln, Daniel W. Stowell (2008). “The papers of Abraham Lincoln: legal documents and cases”

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• Society's emissions of carbon dioxide may or may not turn out to have something significant to do with global warming-the jury is still out.

  Edward Teller

  May, Global Warming, Significant

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• "Write that down," the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.

  Lewis Carroll

  Funny, Kings, Humorous

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: 150th Anniversary Edition: Celebrating Lewis Carroll's North East Connections”, p.72, My World

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• Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

  Stephen Ambrose

  Government, Principles, Trials

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• Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for its correction not on the conscience of judges and juries but on the competition of other ideas.

  Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

  Ideas, Judging, Competition

  Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. (1974)

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• I did answer all of the questions put to me today, ... Nothing in my testimony in any way contradicted the strong denials that the president has made to these allegations, and since I have been asked to return and answer some additional questions, I think that it's best that I not answer any questions out here and reserve that to the grand jury.

  John Podesta

  Strong, Thinking, President

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• The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal.

  Louis Agassiz

  Tests, Facts, Form

  Louis Agassiz (1873). “Geological Sketches”, p.234

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• Jury lawlessness is the greatest corrective of law in its actual administration.

  Roscoe Pound

  Law, Lawlessness, Administration

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

  Donella Meadows

  Sides, Prosecutor, Grand Jury

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• In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked

  Donella Meadows

  Permit, Release, Court

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• I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn't. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty. A jury said he wasn't. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.

  Al Sharpton

  Believe, Doe, Racist

  "Talk:Al Sharpton speaks out on race, rights and what bothers him about his critics". Interview with David Shankbone, en.wikinews.org. December 3, 2007.

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• Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice

  Pat Roberts

  Justice, Dollars, Rewards

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• I can assure the conspiracy theorists who have very effectively savaged [Gerald] Posner in their books that they're going to have a much, much more difficult time with me. As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Book, Objectivity, Mistress

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

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Successful, Trials, Lost

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• I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Writing, Views, Trials

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• I did not see any major issues other than the jury substitutions. I can't know whether there's a problem there, until I read the transcript from the in-chambers conference, when those jurors were excused.

  Catherine Crier

  Issues, Problem, Conferences

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• The kind of evidence that was put before the jurors led to less-than-rational decision-making. I think that juries are composed of good people who can be misled.

  Kenneth C. Frazier

  Lying, Thinking, People

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• In our system, grand juries take every charge, every lie, and they try to sort the truth from the lies, and then they move forward into the system. And that's how the system ought to work. We should respect the secrecy of the grand jury so they can sort through what's true and what's not. And someone is leaking, and if they are leaking from the grand jury investigation, then that's a violation of the law.

  Paul Begala

  Lying, Moving, Law

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• Pay close attention to when you're being the real you & when you're trying to impress an invisible jury.

  Derek Sivers

  Real, Trying, Attention

  Derek Sivers (2015). “Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur”, p.64, Penguin

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• You stand now between anarchy and law. The Police have done their duty. Let the jury have the same courage so that the police can indeed rest in peace. The flowers of spring shall bloom upon their graves moistened by the tears of a great city. Outraged and violated law shall be redeemed and in their martyrdom anarchy shall be buried forever.

  Jason Epstein

  Rest In Peace, Spring, Flower

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• "It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to their governors the power of taking from them the trial by jury in civil cases, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce, the habeas corpus laws, and of yoking them with a standing army. This is a degeneracy in the principles of liberty... which I [would not have expected for at least] four centuries."

  Thomas Jefferson

  Army, Law, Liberty

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• Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.

  Martin Seligman

  Optimistic, Thinking, Reality

  "Martin Seligman : Pursuing Happiness With a Positive Outlook, not a Pill". Interview with Steve Proffitt, articles.latimes.com. January 24, 1999.

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• Case (Keenum) is going to be the quarterback. We’re going to give him a chance to see how he can perform. I think the jury is still out. He’s got a lot of ability. He’s shown some flashes of brilliance and then he’s shown some rookie mistakes. We’ve got to see if we can improve, eliminate those mistakes, minimize those mistakes and continue some of the outstanding play that (we’ve) seen and see whether we think that he can be a starting quarterback in the NFL. At this point, we really don’t know.

  Bob McNair

  Mistake, Thinking, Play

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• When the link between the use of unsafe, mercury-laden vaccine and autism, ADHD, asthma, allergies and diabetes becomes undeniable, mainstream medicine will be sporting a huge, self-inflicted and well-deserved black eye. Then will come the billion-dollar awards, by enraged juries, to the children and their families. I can't wait.

  Bernard Rimland

  Children, Eye, Awards

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

  Johnny Kelly

  Sheep, Attorney, Assembling

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