Robert P. McCulloch Quotes

Believe it or not, there are people who want to be on juries.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

I believe in the jury system.

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

Indictments of any kind are serious. That being said, let's not forget that an indictment is not a conviction. We still have due process in this country.

I should have known. The first tip I got was when she rarely showed up in court for the second trial.

I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.

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

Serving jury duty is a fascinating little slice of life, with its motley crew of personalities.

In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.

The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.

If you're dealing with criminals, they're not going to want to go to court.

Trial by jury slows the wheels of justice.

I've led a grand jury.

I know what it means to prosecute people.

The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.

That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.

to move the wheels of justice is a ponderous business.

Now I have been studying very closely what happens every day in the courts in Boston, Massachusetts. You would be astounded--maybe you wouldn't, maybe you have been around, maybe you have lived, maybe you have thought, maybe you have been hit--at how the daily rounds of injustice make their way through this marvelous thing that we call "due process.

Ask any lawyer - if a prosecutor thinks he can win a case, he'll prosecute it.

Courts of law require evidence to go to trial - not opinions from bureaucrats.

The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.

A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.