{"quotes":[{"text":"Even though the Judge would charge the jury that they should listen to all the evidence before they made up their minds, the chances were likely that 100% of them will have already decided if William was guilty or not before the trial was over.","author":"Kenneth Eade","tags":["bias","decisions","fairness","juries","jury","making-up-your-mind","prejudice"],"id":15389,"author_id":"Kenneth+Eade"},{"text":"Mr Judge, Jury \u0026 Executioner of Micah Xavier Johnson‬ needs to go to jail as soon as possible – he is a danger to civilized society.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["civilized-behavior","civilized-governance","civilized","civilized","civilized-society","danger","dangerous","dangerous-minds","dangerous-people","dangerous-world","execution","execution","execution","executioner","jail","judge","judgement","judgemental","jury","jury-trials","police-brutality","police-corruption","police-officer","police-service","police-state","policeman","policemen","prison","society","usa"],"id":69492,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","advocate","advocates","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","client","clients","court","court-of-law","courts","deep","defendant","defendants","dictum","dictums","disprove","disproved","disproving","epigram","epigrams","gnome","gnomes","guilt","guilty","guilty-until-proven-innocent","humor","humour","innocence","innocent","innocent-until-proven-guilty","insightful","judge","judges","jury","law","lawyer","lawyers","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","plaintiff","plaintiffs","presumption-of-guilt","profound","prosecute","prosecutor","prosecutors","prove","proved","proven","proverb","proverbs","proving","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","role","roles","satire","satirical","save","save-time","saying","sayings","the-law","thought-provoking","thoughtful","time","waste-of-time","waste-time"],"id":77808,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"But in the absence of eye-witness there's always a doubt, sometimes only the shadow of a doubt. The law says 'reasonable doubt', but I think a defendant's entitled to the shadow of doubt. There's always the possibility, no matter how improbable, that he's innocent.","author":"Harper Lee","tags":["innocence","jury","prejudice","reasonable-doubt","trial"],"id":129439,"author_id":"Harper+Lee"},{"text":"Women are like a living, breathing casinoLike a judge and juryThey sense everythingThey sense what you try to hideThey sense your weaknessesThey sense your power levelsOne must be patientOne must listenWatchAnd waitBefore one strikes.","author":"Robert Black","tags":["casino","judge","jury","women"],"id":131627,"author_id":"Robert+Black"},{"text":"A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.","author":"Herbert Spencer","tags":["men","ignorance","jury "],"id":153077,"author_id":"Herbert+Spencer"},{"text":"We don’t yet have a body of scientific knowledge about evil to be called a facet of psychology. Therefore, religious reasoning for actions will always be at the discretion of the psychologist, thus making them the judge and jury over what is delusion and what is a spiritual experience that has to be sedated.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["broken-systems","delusion","flaws-in-society","humor","judge","jury","mental-health-system","perceptions","psychiatry-humor","psychology","religious-experiences","spirituality-101","stayingpositiveu-com","theology"],"id":160064,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Having vision is much more than just being visual.","author":"Heru Ofori-Atta","tags":["fiction","jury","legal-thriller","metaphysical"],"id":175816,"author_id":"Heru+Ofori-Atta"},{"text":"There were eleven votes for 'guilty.' It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.","author":"Reginald Rose","tags":["death-penalty","guilt","jury"],"id":260942,"author_id":"Reginald+Rose"},{"text":"It was ridiculous to think that twelve people could “turn off’ all their biases and prejudices and make a logical decision based on the evidence they were allowed to hear in the trial.","author":"Kenneth Eade","tags":["court","juries","jury","law","trial"],"id":281436,"author_id":"Kenneth+Eade"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}