Al Sharpton (1954) American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, and television/radio talk show host
Interview by David Shankbone (3 December 2007).[citation needed]
[David, Brooks, http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/379yqbvk.asp?pg=1, 48 Hours, Weekly Standard, March 17, 2003, May 24, 2011]
2000s
Al Sharpton (1954) American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, and television/radio talk show host
Interview by David Shankbone (3 December 2007).[citation needed]
Jeremy Corbyn (1949) British Labour Party politician
Question http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1995/feb/16/jury-trials in the House of Commons (16 February 1995). <br class="br">1990s
“A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.”
Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird
Pt. 2, ch. 20
Atticus Finch
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Context: 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. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.
“There is no distinction between a good jury and a common jury.”
Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet (1746–1800) British judge
King v. Perry (1793), 5 T. R. 460.
“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
Quoted in Fire and Ice: The Art and Thought of Robert Frost (1961) by Lawrence Thompson
1960s
“I am as jealous of the rights of juries as of those of the Court.”
Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough (1750–1818) Lord Chief Justice of England
Rex v. Hucks (1816), 1 Starkie, 522.
Edward Jenks (1861–1939) British legal scholar
Source: A Short History Of The English Law (First Edition) (1912), Chapter XVIII, Reform In The Criminal Law, p. 332
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) American women's rights activist
Account of Matilda Joslyn Gage (20 June 1873) to Kansas Leavenworth Times (3 July 1873)
Trial on the charge of illegal voting (1874)
“It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.”
Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990) Swiss author and dramatist
Antonin Scalia (1936–2016) former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Ring v. Arizona (2006) (concurring).
2000s