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Impaneling
It is the process of selecting the jury. Normally 6-12 Jurors are selected who would be questioned by the Judges and lawyers from both sides and will also be heard for their excuses.
Impaneling: Selecting a jury from the list of potential jurors.
Impeach: Attacking the credibility of a witness.
Independent City Subway: subdivision B-2 of the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) subway.
impanel
v. to select and install a jury.
impaneling
n. the act of selecting a jury from the list of potential jurors, called the "panel" or "venire." The steps are 1) drawing names at random from a large number of jurors called; 2) seating ...
impaneling: the process by which jurors are selected and sworn to their task
impleader: An addition of a third party to an action by the defendant.
in camera: in the judge's chamber out of the presence of the jury and the public ...
impanel - To seat a jury. When voir dire is finished and both sides have exercised their challenges, the jury is impanelled. The jurors are sworn in and the trial is ready to proceed.
IMPANEL -- (As pertains to juries.) To select a jury and enroll their names.
IMPEACHMENT OF WITNESS -- Questioning of a witness by an adverse party that attempts to cast doubt on the credibility (believability) of the witness.
TO IMPANEL, practice. The writing the names of a jury on a schedule, by the sheriff or other officer lawfully authorized.
indictment - An accusation in writing and presented by a grand jury, legally convoked and sworn, to the court in which it is impaneled, charging that a person therein named has done some act, or been guilty of some omission, ...
Petit Jury: Persons impaneled and sworn in a district court, who determine any question or issue of fact in any civil or criminal action according to law and the evidence introduced at the trial.
MISTRIAL - A mistrial is a court ruling made by a trial judge after a jury is impaneled but before the jury is able to reach a decision of innocence or guilt of the defendant on the pending criminal charge(s).
Jeopardy normally attaches when the petit jury is impaneled. After such time, the accused may not be released and tried at a later date for the same offense. Subject to exception. See doublejeopardy.
Verdict : The formal decision or finding made by a jury, which has been impaneled and sworn for the trial of a case, and reported to the court.
Common grounds for relief under the writ include a conviction based on illegally obtained evidence, a denial of effective assistance of counsel, or a conviction by a jury that was improperly selected and impaneled.
that the grand jury acquired its modern functions as a check on the discretion of prosecutors and a way of preventing unjustified and politically motivated prosecutions. Grand juries have investigative functions as well, and are sometimes impaneled ...
 See also: Jury, Court, Question, Person, Information
  
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