Jury Quotes - Page 8

• A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

  Edmund Barton

  Exercise, People, States

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• Texans for Public Justice, an anti-corruption group based in Texas applauded the indictment. No jury can undo the outcome of Texas 2002 elections, ... but the justice system must punish those who criminally conspire to undermine democracy no matter how powerful they may be. If we are to be a democracy, then powerful politicians cannot flout such laws with impunity.

  Craig McDonald

  Powerful, Texas, Law

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• 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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• Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to be squared with the First Amendment. Under that test, juries can censor, suppress, and punish what they don't like, provided the matter relates to "sexual impurity" or has a tendency "to excite lustful thoughts." This is community censorship in one of its worst forms. It creates a regime where, in the battle between the literati and the Philistines, the Philistines are certain to win.

  William O. Douglas

  Winning, Expression, Community

  "Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 24, 1957.

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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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• 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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• A jury could very well conclude that this is a case of buyer's remorse.

  Ken Buck

  Cases, Buyers, Wells

  "Buck stands by controversial remarks" by David Catanese, www.politico.com. October 17, 2010.

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• Believe it or not, there are people who want to be on juries.

  Nancy Grace

  Believe, People, Want

  "Nancy Grace prepares to deliver 'Swift Justice'". Interview with Matthew Belloni, www.reuters.com. September 13, 2010.

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• 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

  Eye, Thinking, Wool

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• It's unnecessary to make that, you know, strong of a statement. Let the facts, let the case, you know, and the evidence there speak for itself. You want to be careful that you're not poisoning the jury pool.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Strong, Want, Facts

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Age, Gone, Trials

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• If we want to avoid a clash of cultures - and the jury is still out on whether we can - we'll have to make different cultures and religions compatible with the universal nature of human rights and tolerance. But I can promise you this: Anyone who calls me an infidel at the conference will be in for a fight.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Fighting, Rights, Tolerance

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• Trial by jury must and shall be preserved! Amidst the throng of crude sacrilegisms ... that assail us nowadays in the legal sanctuary, none is more shortsighted, none more dangerous, than the proposal to abolish trial by jury.

  John Henry Wigmore

  Trials, Sanctuary, Proposal

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• ... The popular attitude toward the administration of justice should be one of respect and confidence. Bureaucratic, purely official justice, can never receive such confidence. The one way to secure it is to give the citizen-body itself a share in the administration of justice. And that is what jury-trial does.

  John Henry Wigmore

  Attitude, Giving, Justice

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• Trial by jury is a privilege of the highest and most beneficial nature [and] our most important guardian both of public and private liberty. The liberties of England cannot but subsist so long as this palladium remains sacred and inviolate, not only from all open attacks, ... but also from all secret machinations, which may sap and undermine it.

  William Blackstone

  Long, Secret, Important

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• Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of counsel!

  David Josiah Brewer

  Often Is, Ordinary, Doe

  David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899). “The World's best orations: from the earliest period to the present time”

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• Cross-examination is beyond any doubt the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. ... Cross-examination, not trial by jury, is the great and permanent contribution of the Anglo-American system of law to improved methods of trial-procedure.

  John Henry Wigmore

  Discovery, Law, Doubt

  John Henry Wigmore (1923). “A Treatise on the Anglo-American System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law: Including the Statutes and Judicial Decisions of All Jurisdictions of the United States and Canada”

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• The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes the worst cigars.

  H. L. Mencken

  Opinion, Cigar, Worst

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• There was an interesting development in the CBS-Westmoreland trial:
  both sides agreed that after the trial, Andy Rooney would be allowed to
  talk to the jury for three minutes about little things that annoyed him
  during the trial.

  David Letterman

  Interesting, Annoyed, Would Be

  David Letterman, Andy Breckman (1985). “Late night with David Letterman: the book”, Random House Inc

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• History shows a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody's hobby to somebody's industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single corporation or cartel-from open to closed system.

  Tim Wu

  Technology, Typical, Hobbies

  Tim Wu (2010). “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires”, p.9, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I always wait until a jury has spoken before I anticipate what they will do.

  Janet Reno

  Waiting, Anticipate

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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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