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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Should Willis seek to file criminal charges, she would have to impanel a regular grand jury that considers criminal cases — a move that could precede any publication of the grand jury report.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 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
"I suppose he will impanel a jury," I remarked.
From The Somnambulist and the Detective The Murderer and the Fortune Teller by Allan Pinkerton
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
In May, a grand jury impaneled by Thompson indicted Kohberger and put the case on a path to trial.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
"Has the grand jury been impaneled yet?" he asked the commonwealth's attorney.
From A Man of Honor by George Cary Eggleston
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
A spokesperson for Mueller would not confirm reports of the impaneling of a grand jury.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2017
When the work of impaneling the jury was begun, old Conkwright was there with his challenges.
From The Jucklins A Novel by Opie Percival Read
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
You good men, that are impanelled to try between our sovereign lord the King and the prisoner at the bar, answer to your names and save your fines.
From Trial of Mary Blandy by William Roughead
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
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
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