It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. - George Plimpton
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. - Lysander Spooner
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. - Joseph Brodsky
I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed. - Nellie Bly
In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same. - Ida B. Wells
Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury. - Florence E. Allen
Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the wide circle of the empire would submit to such an infraction of their privilege, even if a judge could be found daring enough to attempt it. - Joseph Howe
If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. - Luther Burbank
It always weirds me out and makes me unhappy that some people think I'm Justin. I'm not. People can be talking to me and I know they think they are talking to Justin. It's hard to explain. - Randy Harrison
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail? - Stephen Ambrose
Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races. - Dan Castellaneta
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
To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph. - John Mortimer
The values of confidentiality of matters occurring before the grand jury is very important. - Kenneth Starr
A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested. - Edmund Barton
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
That D.C. grand jury investigation of Abramoff can't go on forever. Eventually the lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses with some decisions about just who they want to indict. That's when Al Gonzales will have to show his cards. - Joshua Micah Marshall
The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth. - Alan Dershowitz
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. - Bob Woodward
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. - Byron White
There are two other SLA members who have been granted immunity and then also, one of the SLA members had confessed to two other people, and those people, I'm sure, will be called as witnesses, as they were at the grand jury. - Patty Hearst
There's a lot of money with a lot of big law firms that have a tremendous amount at stake by getting the right language to convince the right jury that my client is either innocent or that the opposition is guilty. - Frank Luntz
Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times. - Vincent Bugliosi
The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here. - Antonio Villaraigosa