Jurors Quotations

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.

Evidence of defendants' lavish lifestyles is often used to provide a motive for fraud. Jurors sometimes wonder why an executive making tens of millions of dollars would cheat to make even more. Evidence of habitual gluttony helps provide the answer.

Look at the Chandra Levy case. It's become a Star Chamber. The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.

The point is that the judge is determined to keep this thing moving, and he's getting rid of jurors who are impediments.

We expect witnesses and jurors to come in and do their duties as citizens do their job and do justice. And when they are threatened or harassed they are less likely to do that. It erodes everything we're trying to do as prosecutors.

There is no doubt in my mind that most of those jurors thought Shane was guilty before he even walked into that courtroom.

We have a really serious problem on our hands, and TV has made it so much worse. CSI is fun to watch and entertaining. But, more and more, jury members believe that police and scientists work every case with this huge bag of tricks, and if they don't, the victim and jurors feel the case has not been adequately investigated.

I don't feel that the jurors were fair and impartial when you go in to deliberations saying things like, 'If the rest of his cronies are guilty and they can go to jail why can't he?' I mean, things like that were said.

I believe that the jurors will understand the difference between murder and an act of mercy and compassion. Just because the prosecution has indicated that this is murder, that does not mean it is so.

Frankly, in my opinion, it would be impossible to find unbiased jurors in the whole United States of America. I would have handled it differently.

What you don't want to have happen is jurors holding out, who really have a reasonable doubt, to think they're being held hostage.

His testimony may be his only opportunity to save himself, but at the same time, he runs the risk of sealing his fate and almost guaranteeing his conviction if jurors find his testimony incredible.

Under no circumstances will I, or any of my advisers, prosecutors, the law enforcement officers working on this case or the grand jurors discuss grand jury proceedings -- today or ever -- unless ordered by the court,

We may have gotten good jurors who had no opinion and could give these men a fair trail but we were on thin ice with the appeals court if we went forward with this case.

He'll be able to tell jurors exactly what those two knew about the much-maligned partnerships.

Some jurors may feel that (the reason) he can't remember or recall is just that he's honest.

My point is, these jurors reached a judgment when the facts and evidence were fresh in their mind. That's the judgment that counts.

I think prospective jurors and their families take that obligation very seriously, ... But that doesn't prevent some friend from telling them what they saw. It seeps through no matter what you do.

Jurors understand that the risks of the use of this product have been well known for decades, if not centuries, ... But our society has made the policy decision that, against the backdrop of those known risks, these are products which people ought to be allowed the opportunity to purchase.

Jurors are locked in the jury room without a lawyer, and they are expected to master one of the most complicated areas of the law--conspiracy.

I'm so excited to finally present our case to the jury, ... After three years preparing, I'm certainly ready and excited to present the case. I'm just hopeful we have 12 jurors with an open mind, and they seem pretty intelligent, so I feel like we're in good shape.

I'm sure all jurors have tremendous hardships that would greatly be alleviated with the largess of this court and by any type of compensation.

Most of the jurors were only looking at the evidence that the prosecution gave. But I went over to look at the evidence that the defense presented. I was told don't do that. Just look at the evidence over here.

The problem with high-profile trials is that you have jurors wanting to be on because it's their moment to interface with fame. They fool themselves into thinking they can be fair.

Those confessions of moral lapses, in public like this, might allow jurors to conclude that he is resigned, resolved and finally telling his part.

We plan to refile in Stanislaus County and file this time with a lengthy legal brief educating the jurors themselves, written in English, so they can understand what the issue of subject matter jurisdiction is all about. We don't expect them to understand it they've only listened to one attorney and he's the attorney we believed was already corrupted, this proves it.

The prosecutors will want to make sure that the prospective jurors won't be intimidated or influenced by her celebrity status.

Traditionally, most psychologists and legal scholars have assumed that the influences of racial diversity result from the contributions of minority group members, who in effect bear the burden of bringing new perspectives and experiences to the table. This study offers the novel hypothesis that majority group members are also responsible for effects of diversity, and that performance advantages to jury diversity are not limited to white and black jurors bringing different experiences to the jury room and sharing different perspectives.

The defendants put the whole case on the line when they testify. Once they take the stand, the whole focus changes from the government evidence to whether the jurors can buy the credibility of the defendants.

We want to avoid a mistrial, ... A juror said, 'We didn't discuss this' and that's a really good sign. Eleven jurors can deliberate.

With a case this notable and with the death-penalty issue, it makes it more difficult to seat a jury. It's a much tighter scrutiny of jurors in this type of case.

We thought it was important they get a sense of the space, whether what the district attorney says happened could have happened. That's really important for us, to be able to show the jurors that what they saw in court is not necessarily what the space looks like.

When you have two highly placed cooperators, it eases the prosecution's burden substantially. At the same time, when you're faced with officers who are trying a hear-no-evil, see-no-evil defense, your corroborator is bolstered because the hear-no-evil see-no-evil defense just doesn't strike jurors as common sense.

Finally, we are going to have the chance to have a court hear the facts that the prosecutors refused to allow the jury to hear, which is why 5 out of 12 jurors asked for this result. Truth and facts are what make our system of justice work.

The government needs jurors who have seen 'The Wizard of Oz' all the way through and still think there is a wizard.

The grand jurors have done their work extraordinarily well, bringing to bear all of their legal powers, life experiences and shrewdness,

The grand jurors believed that they had to ask the prosecutors for permission to use the restroom.

There is still no explosive evidence. Jurors will be expecting prosecutors to dissect their testimony with a scalpel.

What I've heard here from everybody is, they are going to have an open mind. They will listen to the hearing, and we're all jurors going into this. We should have open minds, Republicans and Democrats,

This shows we have faith in the American justice system. This has shown that America is not only the best country in the world, but the jurors proved that we also have the best justice system.

Courts don't want to invade the deliberative process. We favor finality, and we don't want to send a message to jurors that you can do whatever you want to do because if you have second thoughts we can undo it.

These are the sort of films we are actively and passionately looking for. They have excited audiences and jurors alike at a number of film festivals because they are stunning and emotional pieces of work, and we are happy to be involved with such excellent movies.

These books are going to rock the nation. Elly and Ray are two of the three jurors who initially voted for guilty.

So much of the evidence presented to the grand jurors was 'blacked out' that it prompted one of the grand jurors to ask the prosecution, 'Did you guys get any sleep over the weekend?'

This is based on emotion. Those jurors had a lot of pressure on them ... and public pressure changes people's minds.

This is not about money. This is about the judicial system gone awry. This is about two jurors being pressured, being told they'd be kicked off the jury. Elly Cook is 79 years old and she doesn't give a damn about money right now. She's donating the money to feed the children.

This is probably the most important phase of jury selection, and jury selection may be the most important phase of the trial, ... This will be the chance for lawyers to see whether these are jurors with an agenda.

This is, to me, an unfortunate situation, because we have a constitutional process ... you have to make sure that the jurors are unaffected by extraneous pressures and influences.

It is the consensus of opinion among the bench and the bar here that the women's service as jurors has been quite as satisfactory as that of the men.

It's not that jurors make up their minds at the opening. At that time, jurors get to see what each side is expecting to prove. And if the evidence comes in as was promised and there are no surprises, jurors are likely to stick with that first impression.

It's going to help jurors reach a just verdict, ... These are sentences you could talk to somebody about, and they probably will understand what it means.

It's becoming more prevalent because of these shows. They're based on reality, but they're distorted by Hollywood for dramatic effect. And it affects jurors. Jurors now have unrealistic expectations when they enter a case. I think they really believe we can get fingerprints off the head of a pin.

They wanted me off -- jurors themselves were trying to get people kicked off.

These tapes can be the equivalent of a hand grenade with the pin pulled out. If the defense can convince jurors that the government has misled them by only presenting excerpts, then the government will be in deep trouble.

It's rather unlikely that potential jurors either didn't have family members or didn't know people that were directly affected by Enron. My greatest concern isn't the jurors who are speaking to the court honestly but those that want to get on the jury either to make a point to right the wrong of Enron...or to make sure that they can make the round of talk shows.

Anytime you're bringing cases against police officers the jurors want a lot of credible evidence, ... In general, they don't like to convict policemen.

In court, jurors are admonished by the judge at every recess not to discuss the case or form any opinions until the case is given to them for deliberations. Of course, there is no such limitation on the public.

I knew it was a lie. The 12 jurors knew that. Everyone knew I was innocent. My friends, no one ever changed or wavered in any way shape or form.

I knew it was a lie. The 12 jurors knew that.

If I were a betting man, and I hate to bet on people's lives, I'd say that it is more likely that they'll come back with the death penalty. Having said that, I hope that the jurors will weigh the evidence very carefully and guard against being swayed by emotions.

If I were the judge, I would just continue with the 12 jurors she's got. I think it'd be a bad mistake to substitute the jurors at this time.

I'm not sure that jurors are really going to care about the niceties of mental illness when they hear someone mock 9-11 that way. It's such an inhuman perspective on a tragedy, so full of spite and hate, that jurors may decide there is no place on this earth for this guy.

Closing arguments may be the most fun and the most dramatic, but opening statements are in many ways more important. Most research shows jurors have made up their minds long before the closing arguments.

If I know before a trial begins that the jurors have already decided everything and are trying to decide whether or not to cut off her head or hang her, why would I go through that scam.

I approached writing a story for the CBC Literary Awards as a mercenary venture - $5,000 for one story, not bad. Now, how do you win it? Jurors are wading through skyscrapers of paper, looking for one story that stands out.

He actually came out with an extraordinary deal, considering what he did. I think the jurors could be offended that he came out so well.

The jurors said it was clear that they would never reach a unanimous verdict,

The jurors realized these were two hardworking and talented young men who came from very little, from a decent family, and who were charged with crimes supported only by false testimony from criminals and lies.

The jurors can determine that this is a 43-year-old man with three young daughters looking at a very long stretch in jail.

The jurors are crying, our clients are crying and the lawyers are trying to keep from crying.

These are not the hasty responses of random people who participated in a test survey. These are actual responses from actual prospective jurors in this case who took time to carefully and thoughtfully write out their answers.

All Hardin is trying to do is find one or two jurors who think the government is overreaching and that Duncan confessed under duress. Hardin is not trying to win but get a hung jury.

The charges were ridiculous. The whole theory of the government's case was ridiculous, and I wished they looked at the evidence like I and the jurors did.

The city of Houston is littered with the victims of Enron. The biggest challenge may be finding 12 jurors who can be fair.

All the jurors took notes to pay attention and stay awake. We chewed a lot of gum and ate a lot of candy.

The kind of evidence that was put before the jurors led to less-than-rational decision-making. I think that juries are composed of good people who can be misled.

The time has come for professional jurors.

I now see that it is possible that I can receive a fair trial even with Americans as jurors,

I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office,