Quotes: Jury

Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you’re prejudiced against all races.

It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.

When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon’s own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it’s all too clear the horror of what went on.

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.

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

I don’t believe anyone has leaked grand jury information.

If you violate Nature’s laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

The grand jury’s job is not to weigh the evidence from both sides; it is only to decide whether there is enough evidence on one side to bring a person to trial.