A jury is a sworn body of people convened to render an impartial verdict (a finding of fact on a question) officially submitted to them by a court, or to set a penalty or judgment. Modern juries tend to be found in courts to ascertain the guilt, or lack thereof, in a crime. In Anglophone jurisdictions, the verdict may be guilty, not guilty, or (in Scotland) not proven. Juries are composed of jurors (also sometimes known as jurymen), who are by de...
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- 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 fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial. ,
- The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve. ,
- Write that down, the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence. ,
- A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance. ,
- The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may have in the sworn twelve a thief or two guiltier than him they try. ,
- Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.
