Quotes about Jury

But, according to the success with which you put this and that together, you get a woman and a fish apart, or a Mermaid in combination. And Mr Inspector could turn out nothing better than a Mermaid, which no Judge and Jury would believe in.

You're not being tried by common sense," Horace said. "You're being tried by a jury.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

The wisdom of our ages and the blood of our heroes has been devoted to the attainment of trial by jury. It should be the creed of our political faith.

A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

In the jury selection process, the court needs to be reassured that the verdict will be based on evidence.

Inquest juries frequently linked suicide to cheap literature. When a twelve-year-old servant boy hanged himself in Brighton in 1892, the jury delivered a verdict of 'suicide during temporary insanity, induced by reading trashy novels'. When a twenty-one-year-old farm labourer in Warwickshire shot himself in the head in 1894, the coroner suggested that the fifty penny dreadfuls found in his room had had 'an unhinging and mesmeric effect' upon his mind.

If you go to probably any jury trial in Baltimore that involves violence, either an assault or murder, and watch the voir dire, to me, that's when you get a sense of what it's like to live in Baltimore.

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

Take off your hat, the King said to the Hatter. It isn't mine, said the Hatter. Stolen! the King exclaimed, turning to the jury, who instantly made a memorandum of the fact. I keep them to sell, the Hatter added as an explanation; I've none of my own. I'm a hatter.

meaning in it, said the King, that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. Let the jury consider their verdict.