jury quotes

You have been acquitted bya Limerick jury, and you may now leave the dock without any other stain upon your character.

-Judge Richard Adams
Quoted in Maurice Healy  The Old Munster Circuit.

   When you see a lawyer trying to pick a smart jury, you know he's got a strong case.

- F(rancis) Lee Bailey
  In the Los  Angeles Times, 9  Jan.

The Press is the living Jury of the Nation.

-James Gordon, Snr Bennett
  In the Courier and Enquirer, 6  Aug.

'I'll be judge, I'll be jury,'said cunning old Fury; 'I'll try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.'

-Dodgson
  Alice's  Adventures in Wonderland, ch.3, 'A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale', told by the Dormouse.

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, will be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

-Thomas, 1st Baron Denman
  Judgement in O'Connell v The Queen, 4 Sep.

Consider, Sir, how should you like, though conscious of your innocence, to be tried before a jury for a capital crime, once a week.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Remark, 3  Apr. Quoted in  James Boswell  The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.3.

A court is onlyas sound as its jury, and a jury is onlyas sound as the men who make it up.

- (Nelle) Harper Lee
   Atticus Finch. To Kill  A Mockingbird, pt.2, ch.20.