A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor.
Donella Meadows
JurySideProsecutorOnlyGrand
Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
Thurgood Marshall
ChallengesEndingDiscriminationJury
If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
Luther Burbank
NatureJudgeYouJuryOwnLaws
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
Groucho Marx
JudgeWeddingJuryMarriedShould
We opposed unlimited detention without trial. We stood up for trial by jury as well. And of course we spoke up for asylum seekers and for the most vulnerable in our society.
Charles Kennedy
SocietyJuryWithoutUpWellAsylum
I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
Vincent Bugliosi
MyselfMeWritingLawyerViewJury
I did not see any major issues other than the jury substitutions. I can't know whether there's a problem there, until I read the transcript from the in-chambers conference, when those jurors were excused.
Catherine Crier
ProblemKnowJurySeeConference
A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
CharacterDeathFactsJudgesJury
One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can't do either one.
Jeremy Sumpter
WaterMeLawyerNeverJuryBecause
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost
LawyerBetterJuryDecideChosen
I have great faith in the jury system.
Judge Mills Lane
FaithGreatJurySystemGreat Faith
I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.
TimeTryingUnderstandNeverJury
A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.
Thomas Francis Meagher
MeFeelingGuiltyTrueCrimeJury
Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.
Liam Neeson
DutyYearsJuryFilmWellFew
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
Herbert Spencer
IgnoranceMenLegalJuryAverage
The jury could get the case as early as next week, but the defense says they just want to introduce one last-minute load of crap.
Bill Maher
WeekEarlyWantNextJuryDefense
I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
LostTrialsJurySuccessfulCourt
We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.
Dave Barry
BetterCountryAdmitKnowCoinJury
I have faith in the jury system.
Nancy Grace
FaithJurySystem
We are not a court - not a judge or jury at work - but we've tried to apply the highest possible standards of rigorous analysis to the evidence where we make a criticism.
John Chilcot
WorkCriticismJudgePossibleJury
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
The jury is still out on whether I'm a genius or not.
Jason Robert Brown
GeniusJuryOutStillWhether
In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked.
EvidenceJuryReleaseBecauseBeen
A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
Thomas Fuller
FoxJuryGooseShouldTrial
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