Quotes of Juror - somelinesforyou

“ The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ He maintained that the case was lost or won by the time the final juror had been sworn in; his summation was set in his mind before the first witness was called. It was all in the orchestration, he claimed: in knowing how and where to pitch each and every particular argument; who to intimidate; who to trust, who to flatter and court; who to challenge; when to underplay and exactly when to let out all the stops. ”

- Dorothy Uhnak

“ Jurors who are opposed to capital punishment are more likely to believe that a defendant's failure to testify is indicative of his guilt, more hostile to the insanity defense, more mistrustful of defense attorneys and less concerned about the danger of erroneous convictions. ”

- Thurgood Marshall
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