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Artists, like criminals, are dependent on a jury.
— Glenn Haybittle
Meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. Let the jury consider their verdict.
— Lewis Carroll
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
The jury is still out on whether I'm a genius or not.
— Jason Robert Brown
Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they're just looking for sheep that are easily impressed.
— Johnny Kelly
Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty.
— Woody Allen
People who are jerks don't get to decide whether they're jerks. It's left up to a jury of their peers.
— Rainbow Rowell
I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.
— Thomas Jefferson
Drone attacks subvert the rule of law - we become judge, jury, and executioner - at the push of a button.
— Mark McKinnon
You might be a redneck if you missed 5th grade graduation because you had jury duty.
— Jeff Foxworthy
before a jury. It takes time: time to
— John Grisham
A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
— Abraham Lincoln
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?
— Stephen Ambrose
I had only been a citizen for two weeks when I received a summons to appear for jury duty!
— Alex Trebek
No one can just file a charge and go directly to a jury trial. That just cannot happen.
— Robert P. McCulloch
I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.
— Joseph Wambaugh
Suddenly, gentlemen of the jury, I felt a Dostoevskian grin dawning (through the very grimace that twisted my lips) like a distant and terrible sun.
— Vladimir Nabokov
You don't have to be a college graduate to murder someone." "Thank you for making the jury aware of that, Lieutenant. I'm sure they had no idea.
— David Rosenfelt
The idea that trials are a search for the truth is just a myth. Trials are a search for that which the jury will believe is the truth.
— David Rosenfelt
Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.
— Frans De Waal
Forcible sodomy and illegal entry, you put them both down and you get a jury confused. They figure it's two ways of saying the same thing.
— Lawrence Block
If I had it to do again, I would less often judge myself and more often ask for a jury.
— Robert Breault
I can't describe the feeling I got the first time I won a jury award for an injured person.
— Joe Jamail
Serving jury duty is a fascinating little slice of life, with its motley crew of personalities.
— Nina Garcia
You're not being tried by common sense," Horace said. "You're being tried by a jury.
— William Faulkner
It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
Who knows what anyone deserves? We like to play judge and jury, but we're all a rotten mess under our skins.
— Paula McLain
To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.
— John Mortimer
Trial by jury must be preserved. It is the best system ever invented for a free people in the world's history.
— John Henry Wigmore
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
A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
— Frederick Douglass
The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes the worst cigars.
— H.L. Mencken
The six-man inquest jury assembled was composed of local residents, men whose lives strikingly resembled that of the murdered Robert Newsom.
— Melton A. McLaurin
A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor.
— Donella Meadows
The Oscar nominations are out, and they're so white a grand jury has decided not to indict them,
— Larry Wilmore
I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.
— Donella Meadows
Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!
— Mark Twain
Instead of accepting plea bargains, large numbers of people collectively demand their constitutional right to a jury of their peers.
— Daniel Hunter
If a jury of your peers finds you not guilty, I will reinstate you back into baseball.
— Kenesaw Mountain Landis
I put my hand down below the table to check my zipper. You have to stand before a jury only once with your fly open and it will never happen again
— Michael Connelly
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
— Groucho Marx
What individual can so well assess the amount of damages which a plaintiff ought to recover for an injury he has received than an intelligent jury?
— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
— Herbert Spencer
You never know with juries. I'd take a judge every time, unless of course I was guilty.
— Kenneth Eade
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
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
The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.
— Mark Twain
A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
— Thomas Fuller
There were eleven votes for "guilty." It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.
— Reginald Rose
A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
— Thomas Fuller
A jury verdict is just a guess - a well-intentioned guess, generally, but you simply cannot tell fact from fiction by taking a vote.
— William Landay
fucking prosecutor put a sleeper on the jury." I thought a moment about telling him but decided against it. "At the moment it's better if I don't tell
— Michael Connelly
A lawsuit with no legal precedent, seeking no damages, from no jury, in the name of stopping something that isn't happening? Only in New York.
— Kenneth Langone
To those that have smelled death, life has a fragrance that can never be explained to the ignorant.
— Jury Nel
The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.
— William Shakespeare
I have a big belief that whatever your passion is in life, pursue it to the fullest and try to be the best at it.
— Myles Jury
The civil jury is a valuable safeguard to liberty.
— Alexander Hamilton
But we can never hope for a whole jury-box full of ecclesiastical diehards.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
My job is to make sure the law works for you as well as against you, and to make you a human being in the eyes of the jury.
— Walter Dean Myers
Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.
— Stephen Jay Gould
