Juror Quotes

You explore the negative vibe hoping to expose a bias upon which the court may act in your favor. Or you repress any expression of delight from the positive vibe hoping that opposing counsel has not identified a connection between you and the prospective juror. - Eroll Skyers

You don't want to waste the court's time or jurors' time trying cases that should have been settled or dismissed. - Robert Rigg

You don't see jurors coming forward saying they think they made a mistake. I don't, either. Nothing's going to change my mind. - Bob Dziadik

You can have a jury of 12 and have one juror overrule the other 11 in the sentencing phase of a capital case. You're not really allowing the process to go through. - Michael Rushford

With a case this notable and with the death-penalty issue, it makes it more difficult to seat a jury. It's a much tighter scrutiny of jurors in this type of case. - Erik Friedly

Why does that make them a bad juror because they followed the law? - Kevin Brooks

When you have two highly placed cooperators, it eases the prosecution's burden substantially. At the same time, when you're faced with officers who are trying a hear-no-evil, see-no-evil defense, your corroborator is bolstered because the hear-no-evil see-no-evil defense just doesn't strike jurors as common sense. - Kendall Coffey

What you don't want to have happen is jurors holding out, who really have a reasonable doubt, to think they're being held hostage. - Andrew Levy

What we fear, in a situation as radioactive as this one, is that we'll have a so-called stealth juror. - Mike Ramsey

What I've heard here from everybody is, they are going to have an open mind. They will listen to the hearing, and we're all jurors going into this. We should have open minds, Republicans and Democrats. - Harry Reid