impanel
Americanverb (used with object)
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to enter on a panel or list for jury duty.
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to select (a jury) from the panel.
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to enter names on a panel or other official list.
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Etymology
Origin of impanel
1375–1425; late Middle English empanellen < Anglo-French empaneller. See em- 1, panel
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Fulton County Superior Court approved Willis’s request to impanel a grand jury last January.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2023
They also plan this week to vote to impanel two new committees.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 9, 2023
However, New York law could allow prosecutors down the road to impanel another grand jury, but that carries risks -- whether or not Cohen agrees to participate.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2022
They also are often reluctant to impanel a new grand jury after an earlier one has heard testimony, because witnesses could make conflicting statements if asked to testify again.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2022
Allen straightened himself, and looking around at the company, replied: "Yes, I did, sir; but 'Old Brindle' transcended the impanel of the impound, and scatterlophisticated all over the equanimity of the forest."
From Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller by Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly) McClure
Barnette has since impaneled a state grand jury, his deputy said Monday, declining further comment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
A grand jury had been impaneled to investigate allegations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2024
With a jury now impaneled, Donald Trump’s hush-money trial can finally begin in earnest.
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2024
A special grand jury impaneled last year found Givens’ death was “suspicious” and said in a report that “nearly every witness” described living conditions in the prison sector housing mentally ill inmates as “unsuitable.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 9, 2023
It was nearly two when the judge finished his charge, so they have plenty of time to waste; for if they came back to the court-room before three they would be impaneled in another trial.
From The Man in Court by Frederic DeWitt Wells
Anthony Michael Kreis, a law professor at Georgia State University, said that impaneling the grand jury was a sign that prosecutors had acknowledged the complexity, sensitivity and unique nature of the case.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2022
Kentucky law requires only nine votes to indict, so impaneling more than 12 grand jurors could increase the odds of obtaining an indictment.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2022
In her letter to Christopher S. Brasher, chief judge of Fulton County’s Superior Court, Willis cited several advantages to impaneling a rarely used special purpose grand jury.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2022
The process of impaneling a jury to hear evidence in the trial of Clay Conaway was scheduled to being Tuesday morning in Georgetown.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 10, 2019
Emerson Mead’s trial had been in progress nearly two weeks, but most of the time had been exhausted in impaneling a jury.
From With Hoops of Steel by Dan Smith
The drawn-out cycle of questioning and culling will continue until a full jury has been impanelled.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2024
Deandre Somerville, of West Palm Beach, was impanelled for a civil case in August, but he failed to notify the court when he didn't show up.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2019
On Wallace’s second day of freedom, the state impanelled a grand jury, which reindicted him for Miller’s murder.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 8, 2017
He impanelled a special grand jury and presented testimony from 50 witnesses over nine weeks, including the accused police officer.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2015
We were impanelled to inquire concerning the death of a very little mite of a child.
From The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens
They were not embarrassed by a necessity of impanelling juries; they might call juries if they pleased; they might use "all other means and politic ways that they could devise."
From The Reign of Mary Tudor by Ernest Rhys
We often take more time in impanelling a jury than they would in trying the case.
From The American Judiciary by Simeon E. Baldwin, LLD
Whether impanelling the jury for the trial of a case is a long or short process will depend largely on the intelligence and firmness of the judge who holds the court.
From The American Judiciary by Simeon E. Baldwin, LLD
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