(358 quotes found)
“The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries”
Clarence Darrow
“It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.”
Joseph Brodsky
“INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of testimony which juries are supposed to be unfit to be entrusted with, and which judges, therefore, rule out, even of proceedings before themselves alone. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible because the person quoted was unsworn and is not before the court for examination; yet most momentous actions, military, political, commercial and of every other kind, are daily undertaken on hearsay evidence. There is no religion in the world that has any other basis than hearsay evidence. Revelation is hearsay evidence; that the Scriptures are the word of God we have only the testimony of men long dead whose identity is not clearly established and who are not known to have been sworn in any sense. Under the rules of evidence as they now exist in this country, no single assertion in the Bible has in its support any evidence admissible in a court of law. It cannot be proved that the battle of Blenheim ever was fought, that there was such as person as Julius Caesar, such an empire as Assyria. But as records of courts of justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women were convicted of witchcraft and executed was without a flaw; it is still unimpeachable. The judges' decisions based on it were sound in logic and in law. Nothing in any existing court was ever more thoroughly proved than the charges of witchcraft and sorcery for which so many suffered death. If there were no witches, human testimony and human reason are alike destitute of value.”
Ambrose Bierce
“A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.”
Groucho Marx
“The stocks have taken a hit over the last couple of days. Once [plaintiff's attorney Stanley] Rosenblatt asked the jury for $150 billion, we believed the jury was going to give him that.”
Bill Pecoriello
“publicly acted as judge, jury and executioner.”
Beth Holloway Twitty
“The judge corrected a grave error made by the jury.”
Anita Holley
“We're in a frenetic short-covering based rally. The jury is still out about how long this is going to last.”
Bernie Schaeffer
“I'm just thankful for a fair jury.”
Beanie Sigel
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