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Believe it or not, there are people who want to be on juries.

I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.

I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.

I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things.

I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed.

I feel like there was justice. It was served through the legal system you know. Everything that I endured. It was all worth it.

It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives.

If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.

But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an accused person, even as to matters of fact; for, if the government can dictate to a jury any law whatever, in a criminal case, it can certainly dictate to them the laws of evidence.

You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.