Jury Quotes

Nobody likes going to court.

'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'

The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.

When we watch courtroom dramas, we tend to identify with the kindhearted defense attorney, but give us the power, and we become like hanging judges.

One mechanism of repression is the grand jury.

I am primarily a lawyer. I would rather play in the game than be the umpire.

If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.

I agree with Scott Turow: A courtroom is inherently dramatic. You walk into court - it's like an ER, you know? Life and death is going on there. And it's moment-by-moment, and it's packed with energy. And even though you think you know what a witness is going to say, you can be wrong. Witnesses surprise you.

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

I'm not pretending when I'm in that court room.

In the present state of society, if every man who seduces a child of 15 leaving her no practical alternative but suicide or a life of prostitution, were promptly put out of existence, the morals of the community would be vastly improved. This girl has had no trial by a jury of her peers. She has been tried, convicted, and sentenced by men alone. If half the jury had been women as should be invariably the case,--if there had been but one woman connected with the trial, no such cruel sentence of capital punishment would have shocked the moral sense of mankind.

From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.

It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.

Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of counsel!

A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.

I think either Robert Blake wither pulled the trigger or hired someone to do it, but it will be a tough case to prove. I think there's a very good chance he may take the stand, and that's what I'm waiting for.

Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

For every criminal case, the judge must construct a perfect syllogism: the major premise must be the general law; the minor premise, whether or not the action in question is in compliance with the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punishment.

Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.

The civil jury is a valuable safeguard to liberty.

Trial by jury is the inherent and invaluable right of every British subject in these colonies

And, you know, like I said, I'm not looking forward to a trial.

When you see a lawyer trying to pick a smart jury, you know he's got a strong case.

A trial is a powerful vehicle to explain things. It is the most time that anybody spends really thinking about one thing. Unless you are the analyst on the National Security staff that's assigned to monitor Putin, and that's all you do, day in and day out, very few people ever spend the time on a single subject that is spent during trial.

I grew up in a courtroom kind of like the one you saw in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - big, big courtroom, sometimes it didn't even have air conditioning.