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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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
Attorney Harry Litman told the network that the decision to impanel a new grand jury shows that Bragg is "going for the kill."
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2023
They also plan this week to vote to impanel two new committees.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 9, 2023
He should impanel a similar reparations task force, with similar objectives in Washington state.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 15, 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 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
With a jury now impaneled, Donald Trump’s hush-money trial can finally begin in earnest.
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2024
While the Detroit uprising was still underway, he impaneled the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, also known as the Kerner Commission, to investigate this civil unrest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 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
H. H. Perkins acted as judge, a jury of good men was impaneled, and the trial was held in Daniel Mears' store.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by William Henry Carman Folsom
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
Selection of the Jury.—The next step is the impaneling of a jury of twelve persons to try the case.
From Government in the United States National, State and Local by James Wilford Garner
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
Judges were ermined and juries impanelled by the community when occasion demanded.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 by Various
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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