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Letter "J" » jury
«Having your fate rest in the hands of a jury is the same as entrusting yourself to surgery with a mentally retarded doctor.»
«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.»
Author: Luther Burbank
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
hangman, jury, prosecute, prosecuted, prosecuting, prosecuting attorney, violate
«Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.»
Author: Thurgood Marshall
(Jurist, Lawyer)
| About:
Discrimination
| Keywords:
discrimination, Eliminating, jury, peremptory, racial, racial discrimination
«Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.»
Author: Dan Castellaneta
(Actor, Writer)
| Keywords:
juries, jury, jury duty, prejudiced, races, trick
«A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance»
Author: Herbert Spencer
(Philosopher)
| About:
Ignorance,
Juries and Judges
| Keywords:
jury, twelve
«A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.»
Author: Robert Frost
| About:
Juries and Judges,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
chosen, juries, jury, lawyer, persons, twelve
«''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.»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
| Keywords:
added, dates, eagerly, jury, pence, reduced, shilling, shillings, slate, slates, The Jury, the king, Three Kings
«`I'll be judge, I'll be jury,' said cunning old Fury: / `I'll try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.'»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
| Keywords:
cause of death, condemn, condemned to death, cunning, fury, juries, jury
«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.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
aggravate, aggravated, aggravates, aggravating, ensue, ensued, ensues, ensuing, homicide, homicides, in return, jury, justifiable, justify, pun, punning, Puns, The Jury, The Verdict, verdict, verdicts
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