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Main Entry:	jury [joor-ee] Show IPA/ˈdʒʊəri/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	panel that hears legal matter
Synonyms:	board, judges, peers, tribunal

Main Entry:	committee
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	group working on project
Synonyms:	board, bureau, cabinet, chamber, commission, consultants, convocation, council, investigators, jury, panel, representatives, task force, trustees

Main Entry:	panel
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	committee
Synonyms:	board, bureau, cabinet, commission, consultants, council, forum, group, jury, representatives, task force, tribunal

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Example Sentences

Jury selection in the trial is expected to continue all week.

Most of those notions proved false or impractical, and the jury is still out on the rest.

In an effort to avoid prison, defendants have increasingly demanded jury trials.

Jury selection in the trial is expected to continue all week.

Most of those notions proved false or impractical, and the jury is still out on the rest.

In an effort to avoid prison, defendants have increasingly demanded jury trials.

The jury may be out on whether you can teach old dogs new tricks.

When you review some of these wrongful conviction cases, it's clear that the jury did not do its job.

McCall was arrested and brought to trial, but was acquitted by a jury of miners.

The jury will consider each entry on its own merits and is empowered to grant as many awards as the submissions justify.

Crippen was wearing a dark suit and red tie during jury selection.

His lawyers say he is innocent, a status he maintains until a jury finds otherwise.

Criminal defendants rarely face jury trials, because they have.

Jury trials over accounting matters are unpredictable, given their technical nature and jurors' limited expertise.

Humanity, and the verdict rendered by the jury of intellectuals.

The jury is out on the balance of benefit and harm from testing for dementia that results from an incurable disease.

The heavily nuanced legal flap surrounded instructions a federal judge had given to the jury.

However courts martial are bench/judge courts, not jury courts.

They took their duties seriously, but not everyone approved women jury members.

However, until there is more concrete scientific research, the jury is still out.

Attorney's office says it can not comment on an open grand jury investigation.

But it proved impossible to distract the jury from what was said in those calls.

In short, the jury is still out on the question of whether organic foods are more nutritious.

Even some winners would be on the hook, if the jury award is much less than they had previously been offered in a settlement.

It can strengthen a jury decision or question the reliability of a contrasting jury decision.

He is determined to abolish the right of some defendants to opt for a trial by jury.

In science, the jury is never finished deliberating but a consensus, nonetheless can be reached.

These remarks alone would probably have sufficed to prejudice a jury against the defendants.

The jury is still out on whether these marine mammals also endure hot flashes.

He might also have celebrated the jury deadlocking on two charges of attempted extortion.

Incompatible parts nearly killed the crew, causing them to have to jury rig the carbon dioxide removal system.

The jury it still out on triclosan's effects on human health, but there are suggestions that they may not be good.

Serving on a jury is a thrilling prospect, but it sure messes up your calendar when you work for yourself.

Smith thinks the jury is still out, but he urges his colleagues following the amyloid theory to keep at it:.

But he had already been convicted of two murders, and a jury had sentenced him to death for one of.

Two short days on jury duty provide a slight inconvenience and a nice jolt of civic enthusiasm.

The jury is still out on the effects of microchimerism-or if there's an effect at all.

The jury before which he was tried reached its verdict on the first.

We cannot be satisfied when fallible humans are the judge and the jury to deadly trials.

The jury deadlocked on the felony charge of conspiracy.

Donovan sent the case to the jury yesterday after accusing a co-defendant of deliberately.

He added that jury instructions were confusing altogether.

If there is enough evidence, the case is sent on to trial with a jury of fellow students.

The jury found him innocent of seven of the charges, including one involving underage girls.

Barford on paid leave as a federal grand jury investigates the cable company's accounting practices.

In the other, the shooter was prosecuted, but the jury found him not guilty.

The jury is out on whether or not biofuels are really the miracle that we've hoped for.

You're not allowed to serve on a jury in a death penalty case if you refuse to consider it as a sentencing option.

Thank you for the link to the grand jury testimony.

It's fair when you say the jury will still remain out on this for a.

In the case of physics the jury is still out as there isn't enough evidence for physics to form a consensus yet.

The jury is still out on the outreach program's effectiveness.

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