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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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
If a member is charged with a crime, the Ethics Committee would be required to impanel an investigative subcommittee within 30 days to review the allegations or submit a report explaining why it didn’t.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2023
Instead, the governor asked the Florida Supreme Court to impanel the grand jury.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 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
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
What types of jurors did the prosecution want to see impaneled?
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
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
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
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
With such assurances these women chose to serve and were duly impanelled as jurors.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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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