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
Example Sentences
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Crews said that a judge approved Descano’s request to impanel a special grand jury.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 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
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
He was to act in the capacity of judge, though the verdict in the case, providing one could be returned, would be given by the jury he might impanel.
From The Golf Course Mystery by Steele, Chester K.
A special prosecutor is re-examining the Spivey investigation and has impaneled a grand jury to assess the allegations of police misconduct on behalf of Boyd and Williams.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
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
The coroner impaneled his jury, and held his inquest under a large upright rock, bedded in the middle of the pass, such as Jeremiah said he had seen in his dream.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
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
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
Taken before a magistrate, Howard was at once committed to the Tombs to await trial, and the district attorney set to work impaneling a jury.
From The Third Degree A Narrative of Metropolitan Life by Klein, Charles
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 are impanelled here to inquire into the death of a certain man.
From Bleak House by Dickens, Charles
We often take more time in impanelling a jury than they would in trying the case.
From The American Judiciary by Baldwin, Simeon E., 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 Rhys, Ernest
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 Baldwin, Simeon E., LLD
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