Jury Quotes

“A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.”

“The jury cannot find evidence : they must find facts.”

“It is the Court, not the jury, who are to determine the law.”

“There is no distinction between a good jury and a common jury.”

“I am as jealous of the rights of juries as of those of the Court.”

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“Challenges being for the sake of justice, they are greatly favoured in the law.”

“Make every private Sentinel, every Musquetier, both Judge, Jury, and Executioner.”

“The jury can't find a negative, unless' such an one as is proved by an affirmative.”

“In the ultimate analysis, only the jury can strip a man of his liberty or his life.”

“The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,
And wretches hang, that jurymen may dine.”

“It is certainly a rule that the jury must find facts, and not merely evidence of facts.”

“Upon trials, the jury ought not to have any evidence laid before them but what is proper.”

“I have always told a jury that if a fact is fully proved by two witnesses it is as good as if proved by a hundred.”

“The best way in which a jury can execute their duty is to give their verdict according to the evidence before them.”

“When juries refuse to convict on the basis of what they think are unjust laws, they are performing their duty as jurors.”

“We have a duty to discharge to the individual as well as to the public. We cannot make a man serve at the hazard of his life.”

“It is a strange, wild jurisdiction, where the jurors are judges both of law and fact, and ignorant country fellows2 are to determine the nicest points of law.”

“I had no faith in a system that allowed the superstition, ignorance, biases, and prejudices of seven jurymen to determine guilt or innocence.”