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Nature's laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.

The jury has the right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy.

The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

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.

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.