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.
verb
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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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A judge this week approved a petition by Gwynn to impanel a special grand jury to investigate current and former school officials over any lapses that led to the shooting.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023
Instead, the governor asked the Florida Supreme Court to impanel the grand jury.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2022
Prosecutors could impanel a new grand jury, but it would take time and could appear as if they were fishing for favorable jurors.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 29, 2022
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
Bailiffs of liberties or franchises are to be sworn to take distresses, truly impanel jurors, make returns by indenture between them and sheriffs, &c....
From An Essay on the Trial by Jury by Lysander Spooner
A special prosecutor is re-examining the Spivey investigation and has impaneled a grand jury to assess allegations of police misconduct on behalf of Boyd and Williams.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
But what I tell my clients during jury selection is “Don't fall in love with any one particular juror who might be impaneled, because you're probably not going to get them on the jury.”
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2024
That’s a particularly ominous prospect because at that point, a jury would have been impaneled and the double jeopardy clause would preclude retrial.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
A special grand jury was impaneled in May of last year in Fulton County, and it heard testimony from 75 witnesses behind closed doors over a series of months.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2023
At each term of the superior court the judge draws out of this box from eighteen to thirty names, from which the grand jury is impaneled.
From Elements of Civil Government by Alexander L. Peterman
For Bragg, the new year began by impaneling a grand jury to hear evidence in the hush-money case.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2023
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
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
A spokesperson for Mueller would not confirm reports of the impaneling of a grand jury.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2017
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
It is enough to say that the jury was impanelled, and the case proceeded.
From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Sir Walter Scott
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
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
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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