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It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
Prosecutors have absolutely no control over what witnesses say when they leave the grand jury room.
Your job as a trial attorney is to try to convey to the jury the essence of the people you represent.
The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me.
Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they're just looking for sheep that are easily impressed.
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?
Drone attacks subvert the rule of law - we become judge, jury, and executioner - at the push of a button.
One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can't do either one.
Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.
Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.
Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
Any good trial lawyer knows that if you've got one credible expert or scientific study, then you can let the jury decide.
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.
I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.
We have seen many instances where Malayali actors missed out on the awards when some of the jury members were from the state.
I have heard stories of how the Malayali jury members trying to play down actors from our own state, stating various reasons.
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.
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
The jury could get the case as early as next week, but the defense says they just want to introduce one last-minute load of crap.
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.
When you analyze all the data, there is a warming trend according to science. But the jury is out on the degree of how much is manmade.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
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.
Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.
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.
Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of counsel!
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.
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.
The Sixth Amendment secures to persons charged with crime the right to be tried by an impartial jury reflecting a fair cross-section of the community.
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.
I don't think any prosecutor should walk into a courtroom and think they're going to wow a jury with catchphrases and cliches and that kind of performance.
We look in... Germany for a superstar. We began with 10,000 people, which applied. From these 10,000, 100 was selected. The jury is unbelievably competent.
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.
Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.
The grand jury's job is not to weigh the evidence from both sides; it is only to decide whether there is enough evidence on one side to bring a person to trial.
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.
Awards are like a pat of appreciation from the jury and viewers. It is almost like them saying, 'So, you have done well; we expect you to carry on doing good work.'
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.
We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.
Fundamental protections, the assumption of innocence, trial by jury, and the right to appear before a court have all been sacrificed on the altar of the E.U. superstate.
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.
We are not a court - not a judge or jury at work - but we've tried to apply the highest possible standards of rigorous analysis to the evidence where we make a criticism.
It takes courage to sit on a jury. How many of us want to decide the fate of another person's life or freedom? How many of us want to hold that kind of power in our hands?
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.
A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.
The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair trial. And that fair trial needs to have an impartial jury.
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 have fully cooperated with the investigation and before the grand jury, and I'm quite confident at the end of the day that we'll know what facts are in this particular case.
As a lawyer, particularly in criminal law, you really do have to try to tell your story to the jury and hope that the judge makes rulings that allows your story to get through.
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.