O. J. Simpson Quotes

I have great faith in the jury system.

I have faith in the jury system.

Trial by jury slows the wheels of justice.

We are not living up to Thomas Jefferson's idea of what a trial by jury means.

There are very few countries in the world where we have a jury system as we all know.

Why do we love this trial by jury? Because it prevents the hand of oppression from cutting you off.

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.

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.

Trial by jury, the best of all safeguards for the person, the property, and the fame of every individual.

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

Let law enforcement determine guilt or innocence.

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

The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.

Law is a process. If there is equality of process for everybody, then that's our definition of justice. Whether or not what is done is right or wrong, you follow the process. And so, the end result is just by definition within that alternative universe that is American law. Most people still operate within a moral universe where principles of good and bad and what is right and wrong in itself, and not just as a result of the process.

It is impossible to find twelve fair men in all the world.

This is the time that I really miss being in my courtroom because I believe that that's the last place in this country where there's supposed to be fairness.

Sentence first, verdict afterwards.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

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 trial by jury is a trial by 'the country,' in contradistinction to a trial by the government. The jurors are drawn by lot from the mass of the people, for the very purpose of having all classes of minds and feelings, that prevail among the people at large, represented in the jury.

That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.

Believe it or not, there are people who want to be on juries.

I would rather have my fate in the hands of 23 representative citizens of the county [the grand jury] than in the hands of a politically appointed judge.

There is no such thing as justice—in or out of court.