I don’t get into
I don’t get into politics, general or musical, but just call me if you get jury duty. Even in New Jersey I was able to help somebody. Eugene Ormandy
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Judges don’t age. Time
Judges don’t age. Time decorates them. Enid Bagnold
To deny political equality
To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment. Elizabeth … Read more
Society\\’s emissions of carbon
Society’s emissions of carbon dioxide may or may not turn out to have something significant to do with global warming-the jury is still out. Edward Teller
If I and other
If I and other whistleblowers are sentenced to long years in prison without so much as a chance to explain our motivations to a jury, it will have a deeply chilling effect on future whistleblowers working as I did to expose government abuse and overreach. It will chill speech. It will corrode the quality of … Read more
It may be that
It may be that the requirement of a preliminary approval by the Grand Jury, of all accusations of a serious nature, justified the boast that a man was presumed to be innocent until he was ‘found’ guilty; but that presumption certainly ceased to have practical application, so soon as the Grand Jury had returned a … Read more
Trial by jury is
Trial by jury is a wise distribution of power which exceeds all other modes of trial. Edward Coke
It has long been
It has long been noticed that juries are pitiless for robbery and full of indulgence for infanticide. A question of interest, my dear Sir! The jury is afraid of being robbed and has passed the age when it could be a victim of infanticide. Edmond Francois Valentin About
A State which has
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
Those who serve upon
Those who serve upon our juries have maintained a standard of fairness and excellence and demonstrated a vision toward the administration of justice that is a wellspring of inspiration. Earl Warren