FIJA Quotes

• "If the jury feels the law is unjust, we recognize the undisputed power of the jury to acquit, even if its verdict is contrary to the law as given by a judge, and contrary to the evidence ... and the courts must abide by that decision."
  - US v Moylan, 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1969, 417 F.2d at 1006
• "The jury has the power to bring a verdict in the teeth of both the law and facts."
  Oliver Wendell Holmes, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Horning v. District of Columbia, 138 (1920).
• "The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts."
  - Samuel Chase, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1796)
• "The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided."
  - Harlan F. Stone, 12th Chief Justice (1941)
• "The pages of history shine on instance of the jury's exercise of its prerogative to disregard instructions of the judge ..."
  - U.S. vs Dougherty, 473 F 2nd 1113, 1139 (1972)