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Being able to feel love, loyalty, gratitude and happiness means you have a soul? Then all my pets are bound for heaven. — Jury Nel

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

Trial by jury is a wise distribution of power which exceeds all other modes of trial. — Edward Coke

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

We have a Bill of Rights, we have trial by jury. We have a notion that you are - you're innocent until you're proven guilty. We have all these things. — Joe Biden

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

A grand jury would 'indict a ham sandwich,' if that's what you wanted. — Sol Wachtler

To value learning as a gift, you have to accept pain as a teacher. — Jury Nel

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

Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant. — Harper Lee

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

When you analyze all the data, there is a warming trend according to science. But the jury is out on the degree of how much is manmade. — Rob Portman

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

I always wait until a jury has spoken before I anticipate what they will do. — Janet Reno

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

Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left. — Rand Paul

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph. — John Mortimer

Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to. — Chuck Robb

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

You don't have to slay a dragon to be perceived a hero - smiling at someone at the right moment might also do the trick. — Jury Nel

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

Morality is a easy horse to ride when all the horses are just black and white. — Jury Nel

The jury was a cynical, unsophisticated bunch, seemingly incapable of empathy, eager to embrace defense bromides however haphazardly delivered. — David Turner

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

To me, political office should be like jury duty. You should just get a notice in mail one day and be like, I'm Secretary of State next month! — Wanda Sykes

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

Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him. — H.L. Mencken

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

I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years. — Paul Simon

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

Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago. — Liam Neeson

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial. — Thomas Fuller

Women should not be allowed on juries where the accused is a stud. — Rush Limbaugh

Ideally a hug should be done long and hard enough to fit all the broken pieces together. — Jury Nel

I served on a jury recently. We got hung; we were 6 vs 6. — Mike Bove

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

Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial. — Jerome Frank

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

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. — Robert Frost

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

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

But we can never hope for a whole jury-box full of ecclesiastical diehards. — Dorothy L. Sayers

At least in America, the narrative is I'm a Cannes favorite. But, in fact, I've had my best experience in Venice, both with the audience and the jury. — James Gray

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

God can judge me, I don't need a jury. Nothing standing in my way, like nothing's my security. — Lil' Wayne

A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government. — Byron White