What's the difference between empanel and impanel?

Empanel


Definition:

  • (n.) A list of jurors; a panel.
  • (v. t.) See Impanel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A jury is empanelled, 11 of them swearing on the Bible, one on the Qur’an: six women, six men.
  • (2) Last year, Gascón empaneled a blue ribbon taskforce to investigate misconduct and the “culture of bias” in the police department.
  • (3) The chief prosecutor, Army Brigadier General Mark Martins, insists he can proceed to jury empanelment by year’s end, despite the mounting complications caused by the intervention of the FBI and CIA.
  • (4) The emergence of the subpoena appears to confirm for the first time the existence of a secret grand jury empanelled to investigate whether individuals associated with WikiLeaks, and Assange in particular, can be prosecuted for alleged conspiracy with Manning to steal the classified documents.
  • (5) These questions could create difficulties in trying to empanel an unbiased jury in the shadow of Ground Zero.
  • (6) Twenty children who had chronic corticosteroid-dependent asthma were empaneled to study the effects of cloprednol for a period of 24 months.
  • (7) This sentinel effort should be managed by a commissioned body of empaneled experts that generally represent the academic and clinical chiropractic profession.
  • (8) It is unknown if this investigation will lead to a grand jury empanelment, let alone a criminal case, let alone a conviction.
  • (9) On the afternoon of 30 October 2013, as the prosecuting counsel, Andrew Edis QC, first rose to his feet, I looked across at the 12 jurors who had just been empanelled – mixed gender, mixed race, mixed age – and thought that they represented arguably the most ancient form of democracy (centuries older than the idea of voting); that this was the moment when all the wealth and influence of the Murdoch network finally confronted a form of popular will which they could not compromise.
  • (10) "In the US, since at least the beginning of 2011, a US grand jury has been empanelled in Washington.
  • (11) A grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, empanelled to investigate violations of the Espionage Act – a statute that by its very nature targets speech – has subpoenaed Twitter feeds regarding Assange and WikiLeaks.
  • (12) Federal prosecutors have now granted Denise immunity to testify before the grand jury empanelled to investigate the sequence of events leading up to the pardon.
  • (13) Another of Assange's lawyers, Mark Stephens, told al-Jazeera television that a secretly-empanelled grand jury was already meeting in Alexandria, Virginia, with a view to his prosecution.
  • (14) Holder also said he was confident a jury could be empanelled in New York to give them a fair trial.

Impanel


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To enter in a list, or on a piece of parchment, called a panel; to form or enroll, as a list of jurors in a court of justice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pollack said that the Justice Department had failed to respond to WikiLeaks’ inquiries about the status of the investigation, which has been led by the eastern district of Virginia, where a grand jury has been impaneled.

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