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.

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.

They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other.

My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?

Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out on the simple altars they have raised?

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.

Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which they struggled confided to your care, allow them to be violated in your hands?

I am finally glad to see that the jury is looking at me.

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.

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.

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

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.

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

The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.

I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.

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.

Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

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.

We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury.

The values of confidentiality of matters occurring before the grand jury is very important.

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.

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

I have great faith in the jury system.

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

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

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

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.

Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they're just looking for sheep that are easily impressed.

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

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.

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.

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

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.

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

A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance.

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

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.

Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.

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.

I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

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.