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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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• Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service - are suddenly legal. As a criminal, you have scarcely more rights, and largely less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height of Jim Crow. We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.

  Michelle Alexander

  Educational, Men, Opportunity

  "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness". Book by Michelle Alexander, January 5, 2010.

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

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Believe

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.

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• It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.

  Winston Churchill

  Believe, Done, Half

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge nor jury. Therefore what he must be taught to fear is his victim.

  Jeff Cooper

  Judging, Police, Doe

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.44, Paladin Press

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• If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that, because the numbers do not lie.

  Barry S. Strauss

  Lying, Numbers, Trials

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• That D.C. grand jury investigation of Abramoff can't go on forever. Eventually the lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses with some decisions about just who they want to indict. That's when Al Gonzales will have to show his cards.

  Josh Marshall

  Integrity, Decision, Boss

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• We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

  Larry McDonald

  Political, Liberty, Four

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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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• As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system-the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges-would take care of that; they didn't need his help.

  Scott Turow

  Judging, Needs, Defense

  Scott Turow (2006). “Limitations”, p.56, Macmillan

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• Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day.

  Johnnie Cochran

  People, Black, Jurors

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• I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.

  Bernardine Dohrn

  Illegal, Grand Jury, Felt

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• The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

  Joni Mitchell

  Land, Games, Politics

  Song: The Windfall, Album: Night Ride Home

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• It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

  George Plimpton

  Editors, Biographies, Pleasure

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