Simon Hoggart Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

Trial by jury slows the wheels of justice.

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

Petty juries, consisting usually of twelve men, attend courts to try matters of fact in civil causes, and to decide both the law and the fact in criminal prosecutions. The decision of a petty jury is called a verdict.

I believe in the jury system.

I've led a grand jury.

Now it is clear, that if the government can exclude, on account either of their opinions or feelings, any persons thus drawn by lot, the trial is no longer a trial by 'the country,' but only by a portion of the country.

I have had it with people who are threatening me and my kids and my family over simply commenting on the law and criminal procedure, and respecting juries. Because they do work hard. They work way harder than I do; and they work way harder than the rest of those people making those peanut gallery comments.

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.

I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.

Serving jury duty is a fascinating little slice of life, with its motley crew of personalities.

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

Juries are the constitutional institution designed to protect ordinary citizens against the wealthy and powerful.

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

In my mind, he was guilty of no error - he was chargeable with no exaggeration - he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said that all we see about us, Kings, Lords, and Commons, the whole machinery of the State, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing twelve good men into a box.

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

I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things.

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.

Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they're just looking for sheep that are easily impressed.