Scott Pruitt Quotes

The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy.

The role of the federal prosecutor and the purpose of a criminal investigation are well-defined.

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.

I have great faith in the jury system.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

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.

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

I've served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way.

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

The juries [are] our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.

Being on a grand jury felt like attending a series of hangings in a legal Wild West. Hands up for a true bill. Hands up for a dismissal. A show of hands to save a life, or to end it.

Indictments of any kind are serious. That being said, let's not forget that an indictment is not a conviction. We still have due process in this country.

In our system, we leave questions of fact to a jury. But to render a verdict, a jury must know the law. For this, we rely upon jury instructions. Instructions are supposed to translate the law into lay terms that the jury can apply to the facts as they determine them.

No one can just file a charge and go directly to a jury trial. That just cannot happen.

I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.

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.

For a while, people couldn't understand why I'd find them so fascinating, but I'd rather go to a trial than to a Broadway play. Now that we have Court TV, they see what I mean.

Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the sentence or judgment of his peers, is only carrying that sentence or judgment into execution.

The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.

As a former home secretary, I have access to and knowledge of the workings of the system in a way that individuals unfamiliar with the courts can never hope to have.

He exists and we have four people who identified him and I know who he is, where he is, what his phone number is, everything about him that one needs. All I need is a criminal trial so I can have him subpoenaed.

The grand jury's job is not to weigh the evidence from both sides; it is only to decide whether there is enough evidence on one side to bring a person to trial.

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

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