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Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.


Abe Fortas


#essential #heedless #inflicted #injury #instrument

The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy.


Jim Garrison


#citizens #composed #conspiracy #defendant #eminent

There are two other SLA members who have been granted immunity and then also, one of the SLA members had confessed to two other people, and those people, I'm sure, will be called as witnesses, as they were at the grand jury.


Patty Hearst


#been #called #confessed #grand #grand jury

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.


Andrew Johnson


#injury #interest #interests #just #legislation

No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.


Nancy Johnson


#believe #definition #does #even #high

The grand jury's job is not to weigh the evidence from both sides; it is only to decide whether there is enough evidence on one side to bring a person to trial.


Donella Meadows


#both sides #bring #decide #enough #evidence

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.


H. L. Mencken


#evidence #hear #jail #jury #laughing

This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.


Bob Ney


#businesses #clog #colleagues #common-sense #courts

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


George Plimpton


#biography #editor #jury #oral #pleasures

Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the wide circle of the empire would submit to such an infraction of their privilege, even if a judge could be found daring enough to attempt it.


Joseph Howe


#attempt #british #circle #could #daring






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