Jury Trials Quotes

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

When I wanted to be an attorney, I think I wanted to be a litigator; I wanted to be in a courtroom.

You go to traffic court in many locations throughout the country, and you can spell justice - J-U-S-T dash U-S. Just us.

Like other human institutions, courts and juries are not perfect. One cannot have a system of criminal punishment without accepting the possibility that someone will be punished mistakenly.

I was a chief justice. And before that, I was a district court judge, handled major felonies, including capital murder cases; and I handled major civil litigation.

By the time our Constitution was written, jury trials in criminal cases had been in existence in England for several centuries and carried impressive credentials traced by many back to Magna Carta.

I was a prosecutor for 20 years.

Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.

Honestly, I have heard a lot in my 16 years as a prosecutor.

I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.

I love doing bank robberies, drug cases, homicides - as a prosecutor, that's what I thought I was going to be overseeing when I got to the bureau.

I tend to watch a little TV... Court TV, once in a while. Some of the cases I get interested in.

The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

Before I was elected to Congress, I worked in a courtroom. For years, I defended doctors and hospitals, and for years, I sued them on behalf of people who were victims of medical malpractice.

Since the Puffy Combs case in New York, I will not try any more criminal cases.

If you go to probably any jury trial in Baltimore that involves violence, either an assault or murder, and watch the voir dire, to me, that's when you get a sense of what it's like to live in Baltimore.

For a long time, I missed being in the courtroom every day. I missed trial work. It was so much a part of my life. It was what I did and who I was. But over the years, I did find the opportunity to realize my childhood dream of writing crime fiction.

I worked as a federal prosecutor in New Jersey.

I don't think the trial practice is dead. But it is very ill. There are some days you could throw a hand grenade down the hall of the Harris County Courthouse and not hit anybody.

Evidence of sentencing disparity visited on those who exercise their Sixth Amendment right to trial by jury is today stark, brutal, and incontrovertible.

I actually was a defense attorney first.

Authoritative interpretations of the First Amendment guarantees have consistently refused to recognize an exception for any test of truth — whether administered by judges, juries, or administrative officials — and especially one that puts the burden of proving truth on the speaker.

I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. I will have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely to be found guilty, we should do our best not to, in positions of executive power, not to prejudge jury trials.

I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land and not by the law of nations.

I practise law almost every day. Exclusively criminal work these days.