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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.

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor.

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 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.

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

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.

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.

I don't believe anyone has leaked grand jury information.

The values of confidentiality of matters occurring before the grand jury is very important.

There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people that argue on the web for hours about who their favorite character on 'Friends' is.

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.

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.

I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

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.