Mark Twain Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

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

I believe in the jury system.

I know what it means to prosecute people.

The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try and respect it. A thing which is not thoroughly easy to do, when we reflect that by command of the law a criminal juror must be an intellectual vacuum, attached to a melting heart and perfectly macaronian bowels of compassion.

Describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial: These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.

Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him.

I have faith in the jury system.

I have great faith in the jury system.

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.

A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty.

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.

During my jury selection process, we went through over 360 jurors. It took six months, all New York residents. Of the 360 jurors, over half of them had been mugged one time. Quite a number of them, maybe 30 40, 50, had been mugged twice.

I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.

Jury service is a duty as well as a privilege of citizenship; it is a duty that cannot be shirked on a plea of inconvenience or decreased earning power.

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

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've led a grand jury.

The Sixth Amendment secures to persons charged with crime the right to be tried by an impartial jury reflecting a fair cross-section of the community.

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