quotes about Jury
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The civil jury is a valuable safeguard to liberty.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.
-- Aristotle -
I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.
-- Bernardine Dohrn -
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. It's not like the sheep was underage.
-- Colin Mochrie -
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A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor
-- Donella Meadows -
Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they're just looking for sheep that are easily impressed.
-- Johnny Kelly -
I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.
-- Joseph WambaughSource : Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.
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One mechanism of repression is the grand jury.
-- Michael Parenti -
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The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me.
-- Robert Breault -
I am sure from my experience of juries that, in a criminal case especially, they will obey the law as declared by the Judge; they will take the law from the Judge, whether they like it or do not like it, and apply it honestly to the facts before them.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
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I've served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way.
-- Simon HoggartSource : "Simon Hoggart's week: juries are smarter than lawyers suspect" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2013.
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I have many things to say. My every right, constitutional, civil, political and judicial has been tramped upon. I have not only had no jury of my peers, but I have had no jury at all.
-- Susan B. Anthony