jury room

noun

a private room, adjacent to a courtroom, where a trial jury discusses a case and reaches its verdict.

First recorded in 1760–70

And our folks are standing guard outside the [jury room] door!

He sent them back to the jury room, but after an hour he accepted they were deadlocked and declared a mistrial.

Whether the revelations will make their way into the jury room is unclear.

It was hard to miss the stash as the jury room is located just past the magnetometers through which everyone must pass.

Several of the jurors vigorously nodded and the judge instructed court personnel to take everything to the jury room.

At twelve o'clock the next day—during a recess of the court—a loud knock was heard upon the door which led to the jury-room.

It corroborated exactly what 340 we learned in the jury room.

In the jury-room they can show them what's what; that is where they know their chance is coming.

The attendant asks for the bill and returns to the jury-room.

There must have been something very much amiss in the jury-room.

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