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«The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.»
Author: Alan M. Dershowitz
| About:
Justice
| Keywords:
arrive at, attorney, defendant, defendants, defense attorney, jury, The Jury
«My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.»
«It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.»
Author: Joseph Brodsky
(Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
jury, jury system, preferring, soviet, Soviets, Soviet Union, the system, the US, twelve
«INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and Romans, sacrifices for propitation of the _Dii Manes_, or souls of the dead heroes; for the pious ancients could not invent enough gods to satisfy their spiritual needs, and had to have a number of makeshift deities, or, as a sailor might say, jury-gods, which they made out of the most unpromising materials. It was while sacrificing a bullock to the spirit of Agamemnon that Laiaides, a priest of Aulis, was favored with an audience of that illustrious warrior's shade, who prophetically recounted to him the birth of Christ and the triumph of Christianity, giving him also a rapid but tolerably complete review of events down to the reign of Saint Louis. The narrative ended abruptly at the point, owing to the inconsiderate crowing of a cock, which compelled the ghosted King of Men to scamper back to Hades. There is a fine mediaeval flavor to this story, and as it has not been traced back further than Pere Brateille, a pious but obscure writer at the court of Saint Louis, we shall probably not err on the side of presumption in considering it apocryphal, though Monsignor Capel's judgment of the matter might be different; and to that I bow --wow.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
abruptly, Agamemnon, ancients, Ancient Greek, ancient Greeks, ancient Romans, apocryphal, bow-wow, cock, Court of, crowing, deities, flavor, ghost stories, Greeks, Hades, illustrious, inconsiderate, jury, makeshift, mediaeval, Monsignor, on the far side, owing, prophetically, recount, recounted, recounting, Romans, Saint Louis, scamper, scampering, The Far Side, tolerably, unpromising
«The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jury-men may dine»
«Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
automatically, defectives, exempt, exempted, juries, jury, jury duty, lawyers
«I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.»
«Jury: A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Juries and Judges
| Keywords:
engagements, hearing, jury, lied
«I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
anchor, anchored, anchors, consider, constitution, constitutions, held, imagined, juries, jury, principles, trial
«The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Juries and Judges
| Keywords:
guiltier, jury, prisoner, sworn, The Jury, The Prisoner, thief, twelve
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