A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
Thomas Fuller

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

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

A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance.
Herbert Spencer

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
Herbert Spencer

A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.
Thomas Francis Meagher

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.
Edmund Barton

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
Thurgood Marshall

Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.
Dan Castellaneta

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
Martha Beck

I am finally glad to see that the jury is looking at me.
Gary Gilmore

I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.
Joseph Wambaugh

I did not see any major issues other than the jury substitutions. I can't know whether there's a problem there, until I read the transcript from the in-chambers conference, when those jurors were excused.
Catherine Crier

I don't believe anyone has leaked grand jury information.
Kenneth Starr

I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed.
Nellie Bly

I have fully cooperated with the investigation and before the grand jury, and I'm quite confident at the end of the day that we'll know what facts are in this particular case.
Alberto Gonzales

I have great faith in the jury system.
Judge Mills Lane

I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
Vincent Bugliosi

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