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
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
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis last week sent a letter to county superior court Chief Judge Christopher Brasher asking him to impanel a special grand jury.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 24, 2022
"Under the apprehension that it had already occurred—the misapprehension—I took steps to impanel a jury," said he, addressing both Barker and McLean.
From Lin McLean by Wister, Owen
Barnette has since impaneled a state grand jury, his deputy said Monday, declining further comment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
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
A special grand jury was impaneled in May 2022 in Fulton County, and it heard testimony from 75 witnesses behind closed doors over a series of months.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2023
Grand Juries of "patriotic" business men were impaneled and did their expected work not wisely but too well.
From The Centralia Conspiracy by Chaplin, Ralph
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
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
The business of impaneling a jury was a rather simple thing so far as this court was concerned.
From The Financier, a novel by Dreiser, Theodore
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
If the plea is "not guilty," a trial is arranged, a jury of twelve men impanelled, and the trial begins.
From Problems in American Democracy by Williamson, Thames Ross
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
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
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
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