Grand Jury Quotes:

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor

- Donella Meadows

topic: Sides, Jury, Prosecutor, Grand Jury

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

- Sol Wachtler

source: "A Jurist's Prudence: A Q&a With Sol Wachtler". Interview with Morgan Pehme, cityandstateny.com. December 17, 2014.

topic: Law, Sandwiches, Ham, Judge And Jury, Grand Jury

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.

- Donella Meadows

topic: Jobs, Trials, Sides, Jury, Grand Jury

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

- Chuck Robb

topic: Sandwiches, Ham, Injustice, Prosecutor, Grand Jury

One mechanism of repression is the grand jury.

- Michael Parenti

topic: Jury, Grand Jury

Julian Assange shouldn't be the subject of a grand jury hearing, he should be given a medal. He's contributing to democracy.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

topic: Democracy, Hearing, Should, Assange, Grand Jury

I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.

- Donella Meadows

topic: Trying, Topics, Procedures, Grand Jury

Prosecutors are allowed to cherry-pick what evidence, if any, that they do present to a grand jury. So the grand jury process overall is flawed. And that's why it should not be utilized in this case and so many cases that are similar to this.

- Sharon Cooper

source: "Sandra Bland's Family Reacts To Grand Jury's Decision". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 23, 2015.

topic: Cherries, Process, Should, Grand Jury

If the author of the Declaration of Independence were to utter such a sentiment today, the Post Office Department could exclude him from the mail, grand juries could indict him for sedition and criminal syndicalism, legislative committees could seize his private papers and United States Senators would be clamoring for his deportation that he should be sent back to live with the rest of the terrorists.

- Frank I. Cobb

topic: Office, Independence, Patriotism, Grand Jury

I have ever had the single aim of justice in view. No judge who is influenced by any other consideration is fit for the bench. 'Do equal and exact justice,' is my motto, and I have often said to the grand jury, 'Permit no innocent man to be punished, but let no guilty man escape.

- Isaac Parker

source: "He Hanged Them High: An Authentic Account of the Fanatical Judge Who Hanged Eighty-Eight Men". Book by Homer Croy, p. 218, 1952.

topic: Men, Views, Justice, Grand Jury, Innocent Man

In our system, grand juries take every charge, every lie, and they try to sort the truth from the lies, and then they move forward into the system. And that's how the system ought to work. We should respect the secrecy of the grand jury so they can sort through what's true and what's not. And someone is leaking, and if they are leaking from the grand jury investigation, then that's a violation of the law.

- Paul Begala

topic: Lying, Moving, Law, Grand Jury

The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy.

- Jim Garrison

topic: New Orleans, Citizens, John Kennedy, Grand Jury

I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.

- Bernardine Dohrn

topic: Illegal, Jury, Grand Jury

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

source: Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.91, Golgotha Press

topic: Saws, Different, Court, Grand Jury

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.

- Josh Marshall

topic: Integrity, Decision, Boss, Grand Jury

I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn't. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty. A jury said he wasn't. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.

- Al Sharpton

source: "Talk:Al Sharpton speaks out on race, rights and what bothers him about his critics". Interview with David Shankbone, en.wikinews.org. December 3, 2007.

topic: Believe, Doe, Racist, Grand Jury

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

- Donella Meadows

topic: Permit, Release, Court, Grand Jury

So the fact that the grand jury would come back and make the decision not to indict the jailers and not make a decision on Officer Encinia, it makes us feel as though there's not going to be a positive outcome for us in that regard.

- Sharon Cooper

source: "Sandra Bland's Family Reacts To Grand Jury's Decision". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 23, 2015.

topic: Decision, Outcomes, Facts, Jailer, Positive Outcome

A federal grand jury is investigating allegations that David Copperfield raped, assaulted and threatened a woman he took to his private island in the Bahamas in July. What happened to the good old days when a guy would just saw you in half?

- Chelsea Handler

topic: Islands, July, Guy, Bahamas, Good Old Days

More details coming out about Michael Jackson. It seems his 13-year-old accuser testified before a grand jury that Michael had seven locks on his bedroom door. See, what happened was whenever Michael would install one lock, the kid would grow an inch taller, and he'd have to put in another one, and then another one, and then another one.

- Jay Leno

topic: Kids, Doors, Years, Grand Jury

It may be that the requirement of a preliminary approval by the Grand Jury, of all accusations of a serious nature, justified the boast that a man was presumed to be innocent until he was 'found' guilty; but that presumption certainly ceased to have practical application, so soon as the Grand Jury had returned a 'true bill'.

- Edward Jenks

source: Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

topic: Men, May, Bills, Grand Jury

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

topic: Two, People, Granted, Grand Jury, Immunity

The police were also ready with more formidable tools of intimidation. The office also assigned a veteran homicide prosecutor to oversee the investigation. All this activity sent a signal to Condit. If he didn't play ball, he might find himself called to testify before a grand jury under oath.

- Wolf Blitzer

source: "CNN Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer", www.cnn.com. July 8, 2001.

topic: Play, Office, Police, Grand Jury

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

topic: Lying, Voice, Dollars, Burglars, Million Dollars

Mr. Buckley, let me explain it this way. And I'll do so very carefully & slowly so that even you will understand it. If I was the sheriff, I would not have arrested him. If I was on the grand jury, I would not have indicted him. If I was the judge, I would not try him. If I was the D.A., I would not prosecute him. If I was on the trial jury, I would vote to give him a key to the city, a plaque to hang on his wall, & I would send him home to his family. And, Mr. Buckley, if my daughter is ever raped, I hope I have the guts to do what he did.

- John Grisham

topic: Daughter, Wall, Home, Grand Jury

The Oscar nominations are out, and they're so white a grand jury has decided not to indict them.

- Larry Wilmore

source: "'The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore' Debuts In Slot Vacated By Stephen Colbert". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. January 20, 2015.

topic: White, Oscars, Nominations, Grand Jury

I did answer all of the questions put to me today, ... Nothing in my testimony in any way contradicted the strong denials that the president has made to these allegations, and since I have been asked to return and answer some additional questions, I think that it's best that I not answer any questions out here and reserve that to the grand jury.

- John Podesta

topic: Strong, Thinking, President, Grand Jury, Allegations