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.
ATTRIBUTION:
Harper Lee (b. 1926), U.S. author. Atticus Finch, in To Kill a Mockingbird, pt. 2, ch. 20 (1960).
