(n.) A member of any jury for awarding prizes, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was only up to jurors to decide if the hotel owner, West End Hotel Partners, and former operator, Windsor Capital Group, should share in the blame.
(2) It’s an anti-police area for sure,” Wilson told jurors.
(3) The jurors' handbook for New York's southern district lists critical questions to ask potential jurors, such as whether they "have any personal interest in the case, or know of any reason why they cannot render an impartial verdict?"
(4) Mahmood had a vested interest in the prosecution against Contostavlos not collapsing due to any unfair entrapment by him, jurors were told.
(5) It is a breach of the US constitution to strike off even one potential juror on racial grounds.
(6) O'Mara also asked the jurors about when they thought self-defense could be used.
(7) In the second phase, jurors will consider factors that could mitigate the aggravating factors.
(8) Investigators have frequently noted a leniency bias in mock jury research, in which deliberation appears to induce greater leniency in criminal mock jurors.
(9) I stayed silent at the police station, because I was absolutely terrified.” He went on to tell jurors that the company had decided to hand him and others “to the police” and repeated earlier references to 3m emails being deleted by the company .
(10) Sportscaster and TV host Erin Andrews took the witness stand on Monday, breaking down repeatedly and telling jurors of the devastation she continues to feel after a man secretly shot nude videos of her and posted them on the internet.
(11) My fellow jurors were Geoffrey Gilmore , director of the Tribeca film festival; Daniela Michel, director of the Morelia festival in Mexico ; French actor Élodie Bouchez ; and jury president, the double Palme d'Or-winning Serbian director Emir Kusturica , a man with an intimidating reputation.
(12) He is likely to spend the rest of his life in jail after jurors at Manchester crown court found him guilty by a majority of 11 to one of two counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder.
(13) But while the names of grand jurors are kept secret, Freeman is an elected official, so citizens could hold him accountable at the polls.
(14) In addition to Pantaleo’s testimony, the petitioning parties sought the release of the charges presented against the officer involved, the instructions given to the jurors, and the minutes, with certain information redacted.
(15) Laidlaw set about building the prosecution’s house for them, attempting to persuade the jurors that, when they saw it in its final form, they would see it was full of holes.
(16) The hearing was then adjourned for the judge and jurors to further consider the sentences for the remaining defendants.
(17) Tamir Rice is 'moral conscience' for activists one year after fatal shooting Read more Neither Loehmann nor Garmback appeared before the grand jury, and instead provided unsworn statements that were read to jurors earlier in the month .
(18) There, jurors heard how Hogan, 62, had not been contacted by the website before it posted a nine-second video clip of the wrestler having sex with the wife of his friend, DJ Bubba “The Love Sponge” Clem.
(19) The Apple-Samsung case has so far lasted for four weeks, and the jurors are expected to deliberate for another week as they try to untangle the complex forms – in which they have to decide, among other things, whether any of 21 different Samsung tablets and smartphones infringed any of 10 different patents on functionality – such as the "rubber band" effect when trying to scroll past the top of a list – and whether the "trade dress" of Apple's products is sufficiently "famous" to merit protection.
(20) It was also the first time potential jurors were banned from sitting on the jury because of their religion.
Summons
Definition:
(v.) The act of summoning; a call by authority, or by the command of a superior, to appear at a place named, or to attend to some duty.
(v.) A warning or citation to appear in court; a written notification signed by the proper officer, to be served on a person, warning him to appear in court at a day specified, to answer to the plaintiff, testify as a witness, or the like.
(v.) A demand to surrender.
(v. t.) To summon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Senior executives at Network Rail are likely to be summoned to Westminster to explain the engineering overruns that caused chaos for Christmas travellers over the weekend.
(2) After five days watching birds illegally shot down and becoming embroiled in tense stand-offs with the police and hunters, Packham was summoned to a police station and interviewed for five hours.
(3) Had not Jaggers summoned me to see him on the day of my majority some years later, I might have wondered at the psychological implausibility of an old woman training a child to be a psychopath, but luckily I was so caught up by the possibility of my benefactor's name being revealed that the thought quite slipped my mind.
(4) Letterman was summoned to a grand jury hearing later yesterday at which he gave his side of the story.
(5) Chelsea must summon a response at Atlético Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final on Tuesday, trying to blot out the memory of the lead that was surrendered so wastefully here.
(6) RPC wrote back the next day saying Ashley was in the US and complained that the official had mentioned the prospect of a formal summons for Ashley: “Raising the spectre of a summons, in circumstances where our client has already volunteered the chairman as a witness to assist the committee and we are now liaising over availability, is, in our client’s view, inappropriate.” In the email, RPC said Hellawell was no longer available on 4 March but was now free on 25 March.
(7) Horrocks plans to summon the spirit of Margaret Thatcher to make his case: “The [1970] Conservative government came in with a manifesto commitment to kill the Open University, to kill Harold Wilson’s brainchild at birth.
(8) The banalities of a news conference take on a strange significance when the men who summon the world's cameras are members of a feared insurgent group that banned television when they ruled Afghanistan and sheltered al-Qaida.
(9) The French president, François Hollande, summoned key ministers to a crisis meeting on Thursday afternoon, postponing a planned visit to France's Indian Ocean territories.
(10) But among the football-faith community the legendary Anfield Road stadium is not considered a sacred site for nothing, and on this memorable night everyone felt what mighty magic can be summoned here.” Describing the match as “a classic in the illustrious history of these two clubs for years to come”, the commentator Daniel Theweleit also believed that the atmosphere at Anfield put Dortmund’s own famed fan culture into the shade: “Even those who have watched the club for centuries agreed that Dortmund has never achieved this kind of intensity.” Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung found satisfaction in seeing the German coach Jürgen Klopp exporting his magic touch across the Channel.
(11) The Chelsea manager, José Mourinho, is anticipating a Football Association summons after Saturday’s loss to Southampton .
(12) The former Liverpool, Chelsea and Real Madrid coach made an immediate impact, interrupting a scheduled squad day off by summoning his players for an introductory meeting and training session on Friday afternoon.
(13) The shooting down of the plane comes the day after Turkey called for a UN security council meeting to discuss Russian actions in Syria, following the summoning of the Russian ambassador in Ankara to hear a protest over air attacks on Turkmen villages.
(14) So why is a CEO such as Marissa Mayer summoning Yahoo staff back into the office ?
(15) Around 400 attended court on Friday, most of them responding to a court summons for the first time, many of them anxious and angry about the process.
(16) In addition, BBC executives and trustees were summoned by parliamentary committees more than once a month.
(17) "Some of you may have heard we have a new judge this year," said Forsyth, summoning his finest brow-raise and hauling the audience at least temporarily on side by sheer force of showbiz will.
(18) Stanley stood up, summoned his secretary and said: "Call my bookie."
(19) The general atmosphere was that there was no point in summoning the police – the policeman is a local settler from Kiryat Arba who comes to pray with the Hebron settlers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs on Fridays.
(20) The Brexiters, by summoning up the patriotic genie, are implicitly calling on Britons to either become more parochial and less diverse – or else aspire to a second imperial age.