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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Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of impanel
1375–1425; late Middle English empanellen < Anglo-French empaneller. See em- 1, panel
Example Sentences
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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
Last Friday, Willis told CNN that she expects to impanel a grand jury probe and start serving subpoenas this summer.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2022
Do I want these books, or do their ghostly authors seize me wandering near the shelves, impanel me by the button-hole, and insist upon pouring their bottled-up wisdom into my passive mind?
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe
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
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
This morning at 10 o'clock a jury impaneled by W. V. Hopf, Ellis County coroner, will assemble in Dawson Grove for an inquest into the two deaths.
From News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories by Spencer, M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle)
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
When the work of impaneling the jury was begun, old Conkwright was there with his challenges.
From The Jucklins A Novel by Read, Opie Percival
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
It is enough to say that the jury was impanelled, and the case proceeded.
From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Scott, Walter, Sir
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
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
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