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«Having your fate rest in the hands of a jury is the same as entrusting yourself to surgery with a mentally retarded doctor.»
Author: Bill Messing | Keywords: entrusting, jury, surgery
«I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.»
«If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.»
«Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.»
«Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.»
«A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance»
«A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.»
«''Write that down,'' the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.»
«`I'll be judge, I'll be jury,' said cunning old Fury: / `I'll try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.'»
«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.»