Juries in a sentence

Non-trial juries A wine jury Besides petit juries for jury trials and grand juries for issuing indictments, juries are sometimes used in non-legal or quasi-legal contexts.

Nicodemo has been accused by five different attorneys – all former state and federal prosecutors – of deliberately holding back information from grand juries and juries, and of Brady violations.

For instance, Thomas Jefferson had to convene three separate grand juries in order to indict Aaron Burr for sedition – but he was able to continue to convene those grand juries until he obtained his desired indictment.

All criminal juries consist of 12 jurors, those in a County Court having 8 jurors and Coroner's Court juries having between 7 and 11 members.

Although establishing the effectiveness of juries is an arduous task, contemporary research has provided partial support for the proficiency of juries as decision makers.

Blue ribbon juries are juries selected from prominent, well-educated citizens, sometimes to investigate a particular problem such as civic corruption.

More African Americans served on juries in Federal court than were selected for local or state juries, so they had a chance to participate in the process.

The principal statute regulating the selection, obligations and conduct of juries is the Juries Act 1976 as amended by the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2008.

Among people who support the death penalty in Florida, there’s appetite for non-unanimity on juries because it would’ve meant the execution of the Parkland school shooter.

And juries are very conscientious.

And when I do that, I discover that D.C. juries have convicted 97.3 percent of the time while judges have convicted 88 percent of the time.

At least seven bodies so far have said they would boycott the pilot and the Scottish Solicitors Bar Association slammed the proposals, saying: “No other civilised country dispenses with juries in such cases.

Dozens of others have been convicted after trials decided by juries or judges.

Grand juries have long been criticised as little more than rubber stamps for prosecutors.

He said: 'Juries act as an essential and effective safeguard against the potential for unconscious biases to unfairly influence trial outcomes.

I’d met people who would go on to become my mentors, like David Oyelowo and Emma Thompson, I was able to be part of juries and give back to members of my own community by mentoring younger students.

Increasingly, juries were not believing what they were being told by police officers.

In the last days of the previous government the Rattenbury amendments to the Juries Act ensured that jurors would do as they were told and only as they were told.

It has been another busy year for judges, juries and magistrates across Sussex.

It’s unclear which one of those grand juries would hear Willis’ election case.