Juries

(278 votes)   The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may have in the sworn twelve a thief or two guiltier than him they try.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(180 votes)   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.

H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

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(173 votes)   Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(148 votes)   ''Write that down,'' the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.

Lewis Carroll
1832-1898, British Writer, Mathematician

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(144 votes)   The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.

Elbert Hubbard
1859-1915, American Author, Publisher

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(131 votes)   I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.

Harper Lee
1926-, American Author

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