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“God can judge me, I don't need a jury. Nothing standing in my way, like nothing's my security.”

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“Jury verdicts, basketball games, and even music are enough to set off black rage, it seems.”

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Author:Ron Paul

“If the federal constitution is to be construed so far in connection with the state constitutions, as to leave the trial by jury in civil causes, for instance, secured; on the same principles it would have left the trial by jury in criminal causes, the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus, etc. secured; they all stand on the same footing; they are the common rights of Americans, and have been recognized by the state constitutions.”

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Author:Richard Henry Lee

“In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system, non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush's order calls this Soviet-style abomination 'a full and fair trial.'”

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Author:William Safire

“Women should not be allowed on juries where the accused is a stud.”

Should Stupid Accused Hateful Jury Studs

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedom.”

Source: Starship Troopers

“I will speak until I can no longer speak. I will speak as long as it takes, until the alarm is sounded from coast to coast that our Constitution is important, that your rights to trial by jury are precious, that no American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found to be guilty by a court.”

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Author:Rand Paul

“Describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial: These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.”

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Author:Jeff Greenfield

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

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Author:Friedrich Durrenmatt

“The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.”

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Author:Publilius Syrus

“When the jury came in, it didn't just disappoint me it shook the foundations of my beliefs, it shook the foundations of my beliefs in the justice system, in human beings, in my abilities and judgement and in my sense of reality. It just blew me away emotionally and psychologically.”

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Author:David Rudolf

“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.”

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Author:Norm Crosby

“[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.”

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Author:Thurgood Marshall

“If I had killed somebody, it wouldn't have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But f-ing, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to f- young girls. Juries want to f- young girls. Everyone wants to f- young girls!”

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Author:Roman Polanski

“As a private person, I have a passion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard. Where every prospect pleases, man is at his vilest when he erects a billboard. When I retire from Madison Avenue, I am going to start a secret society of masked vigilantes who will travel around the world on silent motor bicycles, chopping down posters at the dark of the moon. How many juries will convict us when we are caught in these acts of beneficent citizenship?”

“I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in chains. Women caged in cells. But we're the terrorists. It just doesn't make sense.”

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Author:Assata Shakur

“Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers think it expedient should be said or written.”

Thinking Should Writing Littles Said Written England Discussion Twelve Say Anything Jury Insulting Shopkeepers

Author:A. V. Dicey

“I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. I will have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely to be found guilty, we should do our best not to, in positions of executive power, not to prejudge jury trials.”

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Author:Howard Dean

“Society's emissions of carbon dioxide may or may not turn out to have something significant to do with global warming-the jury is still out.”

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Author:Edward Teller

“I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.”

Writing Duty Jury Jury Duty

Author:David O. Russell

“The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair trial. And that fair trial needs to have an impartial jury.”

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Author:Maria Cantwell

“A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government.”

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Author:Byron White

“Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for its correction not on the conscience of judges and juries but on the competition of other ideas.”

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Author:Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

“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.”

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Author:John Podesta

“The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal.”

Facts Form Theory Tests Appeals Jury

Book:Geological Sketches

Source: Geological Sketches

“The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.”

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Author:Clarence Darrow

“Jury lawlessness is the greatest corrective of law in its actual administration.”

Law Administration Jury Lawlessness

Author:Roscoe Pound

“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.”

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Author:Donella Meadows

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

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Author:Donella Meadows

“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”

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Author:Donella Meadows

“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.”

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Author:Al Sharpton

“Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice”

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Author:Pat Roberts

“I can assure the conspiracy theorists who have very effectively savaged [Gerald] Posner in their books that they're going to have a much, much more difficult time with me. As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.”

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Author:Vincent Bugliosi

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

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Author:Vincent Bugliosi

“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.”

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Author:Vincent Bugliosi

“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.”

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Author:Catherine Crier

“The kind of evidence that was put before the jurors led to less-than-rational decision-making. I think that juries are composed of good people who can be misled.”

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Author:Kenneth C. Frazier

“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.”

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Author:Paul Begala

“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.”

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Book:Brigadier-general Thomas Francis Meagher: his political and military career; with selections from his speeches and writings

Source: Brigadier-general Thomas Francis Meagher: his political and military career; with selections from his speeches and writings

“Pay close attention to when you're being the real you & when you're trying to impress an invisible jury.”

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Book:Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur

Source: Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur

“You stand now between anarchy and law. The Police have done their duty. Let the jury have the same courage so that the police can indeed rest in peace. The flowers of spring shall bloom upon their graves moistened by the tears of a great city. Outraged and violated law shall be redeemed and in their martyrdom anarchy shall be buried forever.”

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Author:Jason Epstein

“"It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to their governors the power of taking from them the trial by jury in civil cases, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce, the habeas corpus laws, and of yoking them with a standing army. This is a degeneracy in the principles of liberty... which I [would not have expected for at least] four centuries."”

“Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.”

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Author:Joseph Wambaugh

“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.”

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Author:Alan Dershowitz

“Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.”

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Author:Martin Seligman

“Case (Keenum) is going to be the quarterback. We’re going to give him a chance to see how he can perform. I think the jury is still out. He’s got a lot of ability. He’s shown some flashes of brilliance and then he’s shown some rookie mistakes. We’ve got to see if we can improve, eliminate those mistakes, minimize those mistakes and continue some of the outstanding play that (we’ve) seen and see whether we think that he can be a starting quarterback in the NFL. At this point, we really don’t know.”

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Author:Bob McNair

“When the link between the use of unsafe, mercury-laden vaccine and autism, ADHD, asthma, allergies and diabetes becomes undeniable, mainstream medicine will be sporting a huge, self-inflicted and well-deserved black eye. Then will come the billion-dollar awards, by enraged juries, to the children and their families. I can't wait.”

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

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Author:Johnny Kelly

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