"Write that down," the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them... up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Half the testimony in the Bobbitt case sounded like Sally Jesse Raphael. Juries watch programs like this and are ready to listen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system--that is no ideal to me, it is a living, w...orking reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Are twelve wise men more wise than one? or will twelve fools, put together, make one sage? Are twelve honest men more honest than ...one?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Jury--A group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health, and business engagements, have failed to fo...ol him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »