A grand jury hears only one side – that of the prosecutor.
Putting pressure on grand juries to indict in my view is un-American. A grand jury should be allowed to be fair and impartial. They shouldn’t have people yelling and screaming.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
During my jury selection process, we went through over 360 jurors. It took six months, all New York residents. Of the 360 jurors, over half of them had been mugged one time. Quite a number of them, maybe 30 40, 50, had been mugged twice.
The jury is still out on whether I’m a genius or not.
The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come… It’s an honor and a privilege. I was called and I’ve got to be here.
I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy.
Thousands of people plead guilty to crimes every year in the United States because they know that the odds of a jury’s believing their word over a police officer’s are slim to none.
As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.
I have never served on a jury because MPs were exempted – or banned, I think.
The values of confidentiality of matters occurring before the grand jury is very important.
Scientists want to know the evidence behind a statement; they want reproducible tests and verifiable facts. There is a big difference in the thought process of a trial lawyer who is interested not in what’s true but what he can convince a jury is true.
I don’t think I could have just kept writing the ‘Richard Jury’ books. It wasn’t that I was bored or dissatisfied. I just had to write something else.
One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can’t do either one.
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.
More than 90 percent of criminal cases are never tried before a jury. Most people charged with crimes forfeit their constitutional rights and plead guilty.
That D.C. grand jury investigation of Abramoff can’t go on forever. Eventually the lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses with some decisions about just who they want to indict. That’s when Al Gonzales will have to show his cards.
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
Any good trial lawyer knows that if you’ve got one credible expert or scientific study, then you can let the jury decide.
We opposed unlimited detention without trial. We stood up for trial by jury as well. And of course we spoke up for asylum seekers and for the most vulnerable in our society.
I think right now the jury is out on where and how much profit is available in the consumer electronics industry, because if you look at the current consumer electronics players, the biggest ones on the planet struggle to make profit consistently.
Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.
It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.
Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.
My point is you’ve been given a powerful blessing in life in this country to be able to vote and to be able to sit on the jury, so come equipped.
Your job as a trial attorney is to try to convey to the jury the essence of the people you represent.
I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
At least in America, the narrative is I’m a Cannes favorite. But, in fact, I’ve had my best experience in Venice, both with the audience and the jury.
I met Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu years ago during my college days, and I was in charge of international promotion of this movie festival he was invited to as part of the jury, and then he saw my work on a short film that was directed by a friend of mine.
A lawsuit with no legal precedent, seeking no damages, from no jury, in the name of stopping something that isn’t happening? Only in New York.
In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked.
After the verdict was read in the Simpson case, as the jury was leaving, one of them, I was later told, said, ‘We think he probably did it. We just didn’t think they proved it beyond a reasonable doubt.’
The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.
As I’ve stated prior, I have no concerns with a grand juror sharing their thoughts or opinions about me and my office’s involvement in the matter involving the death of Ms. Breonna Taylor. However, I have concerns with a grand juror seeking to make anonymous and unlimited disclosures about the grand jury proceedings.
In our system, we leave questions of fact to a jury. But to render a verdict, a jury must know the law. For this, we rely upon jury instructions. Instructions are supposed to translate the law into lay terms that the jury can apply to the facts as they determine them.
In civil or criminal litigation in a jury case, the only way for a defendant to avoid a trial is for a judge to rule that there was no evidence from which the jury could find for the other side.
The jury is not in, so we just don’t know. But there are very strong indications that wormholes that a human could travel through are forbidden by the laws of physics. That’s sad, that’s unfortunate, but that’s the direction in which things are pointing.
Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They’re looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.
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