Judge And Jury Quotes

If you violate Nature’s laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

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

The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.

He that wrongs a friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast, Himself the judge and jury, and himself The prisoner at the bar ever condemned.

If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which the judges may be suspected of bias, the jury undertake to decide both law and fact.

When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process that allows the police to become judge and jury – national security letters, no-knock searches, broad general warrants, pre-conviction forfeiture – we begin to have a very serious problem on our hands.

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.

The jury passing on the prisoner’s life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.

Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for its correction not on the conscience of judges and juries but on the competition of other ideas.

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose’s trial.

It is not only the juror’s right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court.

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

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.

Ill try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.

A grand jury would ‘indict a ham sandwich,’ if that’s what you wanted.

I became tired of submitting my art to a panel of corporate strategists who decide if it meets their standard of what gets into stores or not. It was quite simple for me: they act like judge and jury of my art, and that is unacceptable. I wanted to give it right to the public.

It’s not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even – or rather, especially – when we’d prefer not to be.