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Letter "J" » jury
«To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.»
Author: Byron R. White
| About:
Justice,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
affected, death penalty, defendant, defendants, deprive, entitled, exclude, impartial, juror, jurors, jury, penalty, prospect, slightest
«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»
«We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
admit, coin, Coined, coining, complain, flip, juries, jury, jury system, much as, operate, operate on, operating system, possibly, system
«The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is ''what should be.'' Now, if you're taught to live up to a ''what should be'' that never existed -- only an occult superstition, no proof of this ''should be'' -- then you can sit on a jury and indict easily, you can cast the first stone, you can burn Adolf Eichmann, like that!»
Author: Lenny Bruce
(Comedian, Satirist)
| Keywords:
Adolf, Adolf Eichmann, Catholicism, Eichmann, existed, incorrect, indict, indicted, indicting, jury, live up to, occult, The First Stone
«The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Laughter
| Keywords:
courtroom, Courtrooms, jail, jury, laughing, penalty, The Jury
«The jury has a right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy»
«You kin never tell what a woman or a country jury is goin' to do»
«We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
criminal, efficiency, jury, jury system, marred, twelve
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