Jury Quotes - Page 11

• A woman was the property of her father or her husband and that remained true right into the twentieth century. It wasn't until 1975 that women had a guaranteed right to serve on federal juries.

  Noam Chomsky

  Husband, Father, Century

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

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• The trial by jury is a trial by 'the country,' in contradistinction to a trial by the government. The jurors are drawn by lot from the mass of the people, for the very purpose of having all classes of minds and feelings, that prevail among the people at large, represented in the jury.

  Lysander Spooner

  Country, Government, Class

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Legal writings”

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• If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.

  Lysander Spooner

  Government, Law, People

  Lysander Spooner (2004). “An Essay on the Trial by Jury”, p.11, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an accused person, even as to matters of fact; for, if the government can dictate to a jury any law whatever, in a criminal case, it can certainly dictate to them the laws of evidence.

  Lysander Spooner

  Government, Law, Justice

  Lysander Spooner (2004). “An Essay on the Trial by Jury”, p.1, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Some field days can be tough. I've worked inside fuel tanks with 3 foot ceilings, in -42 to +42 Celsius temperatures, in snow and smoke and hail, and I've dug through snow and ice and pavement to find legal evidence. I've worked clear through the night by headlamp, and I've flown in a rickety long-islander with propane tanks strapped into the other seats. I've jury-rigged missing equipment, broken into my own truck, and cut out an emergency helicopter pad with a machete. I've been hungry, cold, tired, lost, injured, and downright hopeless!

  Mark Mason

  Tired, Cutting, Night

  "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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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.

  Lysander Spooner

  Government, Law, People

  Lysander Spooner (2004). “An Essay on the Trial by Jury”, p.4, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be.

  Josh Radnor

  Jobs, Kindness, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Liam Neeson

  Years, Festivals, Film

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• Of all my prosecutorsnot one is my peer, but each and all are my political sovereigns; and had your honor submitted my case to the jury, as was clearly your duty, then I should have had just cause of protest, for not one of those men was my peer; but, native or foreign born, white or black, rich or poor, educated or ignorant, sober or drunk, each and every man of them was my political superior; hence, in no sense, my peer.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Should Have, Law

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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.

  Donella Meadows

  Trying, Topics, Procedures

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• Right to a speedy jury trial and so on and so forth. But what do they mean by 'person'? It certainly didn't mean individuals with flesh and blood like Native Americans who weren't persons, they don't have any rights.

  Noam Chomsky

  Native American, Mean, Rights

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

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• 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

  Democracy, Hearing, Should

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

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• We've actually seen Black man murders [in] many a major city in the United States - New York City, St. Louis, Missouri, from Cleveland to Baltimore. It was those sorts of incidents that were very much prevalent in the forefront of that jury's conscience that allowed them to believe that this man [O.J. Simpson] could have been set up.

  Sterling K. Brown

  New York, Believe, Men

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• We have a Bill of Rights, we have trial by jury. We have a notion that you are - you're innocent until you're proven guilty. We have all these things.

  Joe Biden

  Rights, Trials, Bills

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Jews can't serve on juries because they insist they're guilty.

  Cathy Ladman

  Women, Guilt, Jew

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• When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.

  Aristotle

  Bars, Pleasure

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• I have faith in the jury system.

  Nancy Grace

  Have Faith

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• I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years.

  Paul Simon

  Crazy, Years, Insanity

  Song: Still Crazy After All These Years

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• I have great faith in the jury system.

  Mills Lane

  Great Faith

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• One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can't do either one.

  Jeremy Sumpter

  Water, Lawyer, Drink

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• Along the way I have been able to choose some themes which ask questions - not necessarily force a message on anyone, but at least invite the audience to question things: jury service, dignity in dying, Ireland - and not least because they force me to ask myself questions. Where do I stand?

  Julie Walters

  Dying, Able, Way

  "Bafta TV special/Julie Walters: Queen of the screen". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2012.

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• Nullification is not a 'defense' recognized by law, but rather a mechanism that permits a jury, as community conscience, to disregard the strict requirements of law where it finds that those requirements cannot justly be applied in a particular case.

  David L. Bazelon

  Law, Community, Defense

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• This is a jury of your peers. They watch the same TV movies. They belong to Oprah’s Book Club. You can take any monster, slap a bad dad into his past, and all of a sudden he’s just another lost soul, lashing out. And you were the poor lady that got in the way. They’ll argue you lacked compassion. You were the one who took things too far.

  Jeremy Robert Johnson

  Dad, Book, Compassion

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

  Chuck Robb

  Sandwiches, Ham, Injustice

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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

  Judging, Authority, Stills

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