“ The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent. ”
- Elwyn Brooks White- Copy
- 572
“ A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
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“ I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system — that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up. ”
- Harper Lee- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. ”
- Herbert Spencer- Copy
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“ The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing. ”
- Jennifer Lopez- Copy
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“ To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph. ”
- John Mortimer- Copy
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“ With attractive women juries sometimes have to be restrained from handing them a medal for their crimes. ”
- John McGeorge- Copy
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“ Having your fate rest in the hands of a jury is the same as entrusting yourself to surgery with a mentally retarded doctor. ”
- Bill Messing- Copy
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“ I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ Nature's laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. ”
- Luther Burbank- Copy
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“ Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased. ”
- Robert Green Ingersoll- Copy
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“ A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. ”
- Norm Crosby- Copy
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“ Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ Jury: Twelve people who determine which client has the better lawyer. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
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“ A jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
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