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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.
Author:
Bob Woodward
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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.
Author:
Byron White
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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.
Author:
Ida Wells
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I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.
Author:
Joseph Wambaugh
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Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.
Author:
Joseph Wambaugh
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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.
Author:
Antonio Villaraigosa
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There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people that argue on the web for hours about who their favorite character on "Friends" is.
Author:
Jon Stewart
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The values of confidentiality of matters occurring before the grand jury is very important.
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Kenneth Starr
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I don't believe anyone has leaked grand jury information.
Author:
Kenneth Starr
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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.
Author:
Lysander Spooner
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
Author:
Herbert Spencer
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A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance.
Author:
Herbert Spencer
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I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.
Author:
David Russell
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I think right now the jury is out on where and how much profit is available in the consumer electronics industry, because if you look at the current consumer electronics players, the biggest ones on the planet struggle to make profit consistently.
Author:
Kevin Rollins
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It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
Author:
George Plimpton
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Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.
Author:
Liam Neeson
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To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.
Author:
John Mortimer
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The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
Author:
H. Mencken
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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.
Author:
Thomas Meagher
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A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor.
Author:
Donella Meadows
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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.
Author:
Donella Meadows
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I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.
Author:
Donella Meadows
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I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
Author:
Groucho Marx
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Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
Author:
Thurgood Marshall
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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.
Author:
Joshua Marshall
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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.
Author:
Bill Maher
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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.
Author:
Frank Luntz
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My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.
Author:
Jennifer Lopez
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I have great faith in the jury system.
Author:
Judge Lane
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Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they're just looking for sheep that are easily impressed.
Author:
Johnny Kelly
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We look in... Germany for a superstar. We began with 10,000 people, which applied. From these 10,000, 100 was selected. The jury is unbelievably competent.
Author:
Michelle Hunziker
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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.
Author:
Joseph Howe
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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.
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Oliver Holmes
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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.
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Patty Hearst
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In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical.
Author:
Woody Harrelson
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I have fully cooperated with the investigation and before the grand jury, and I'm quite confident at the end of the day that we'll know what facts are in this particular case.
Author:
Alberto Gonzales
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I am finally glad to see that the jury is looking at me.
Author:
Gary Gilmore
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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.
Author:
Jim Garrison
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A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Author:
Robert Frost
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The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Author:
Robert Frost
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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.
Author:
Norm Crosby
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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.
Author:
Catherine Crier
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The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
Author:
Samuel Chase
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If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
Author:
Luther Burbank
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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.
Author:
Vincent Bugliosi
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I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
Author:
Vincent Bugliosi
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
Author:
Vincent Bugliosi
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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.
Author:
Joseph Brodsky
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We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury.
Author:
Ben Bradlee
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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.
Author:
Nellie Bly
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The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.
Author:
Jello Biafra
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Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
Author:
Martha Beck
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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.
Author:
Edmund Barton
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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.
Author:
Dave Barry
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Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?
Author:
Stephen Ambrose
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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.
Author:
Florence Allen
