(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.
Trier
Definition:
(n.) One who tries; one who makes experiments; one who examines anything by a test or standard.
(n.) One who tries judicially.
(n.) A person appointed according to law to try challenges of jurors; a trior.
(n.) That which tries or approves; a test.
Example Sentences:
(1) Von Trier, who took a " vow of silence " after being banned from the Cannes film festival in 2011 after joking about Nazism during a press conference for Melancholia, arrived at Nymphomaniac's photocall wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the phrase "Persona Non Grata"; true to his word, he failed to attend the subsequent press conference where his actors and producer talked about the film.
(2) Speaking at a press conference following the preview of his latest film, Melancholia, von Trier expressed sympathy for Hitler, remarked that Israel was "a pain in the arse" and jokingly confessed to being a Nazi .
(3) But in terms of quality, controversy, debate and infinite variety, this has indeed been a vintage Cannes and of all the ones to miss, Lars von Trier picked the wrong one.
(4) The Hollywood actor Shia LaBeouf has been performing a series of bold and strange public performances in recent weeks, from hiring a skywriter to apologise to a writer he plagiarised to wearing a paper bag on his head to the premiere of Nymphomaniac , the Lars Von Trier film he stars in.
(5) This is first because such undisclosed triers might be more accurate in their self-reports when questioned a second time, but also because this group would contribute disproportionately to those trying smoking in the follow-up period.
(6) Triers versus never-triers differed on their reported images of smokers, and several psychosocial characteristics predicted trying a cigarette and intentions to smoke for boys.
(7) What Brecht felt, and what directors like Stanley or Lars von Trier are saying, is that it's not about becoming attached to the characters or imagining that it's really happening to you.
(8) The cinema version of Lars Von Trier's new film Nymphomaniac may be a draining four hours long, and split into two halves for its release, but the full uncut film extends to a truly marathon five and a half hours.
(9) The standard score means of users, triers, and nonusers differed significantly on six of seven PRECEDE model components: attitudes, beliefs, values, perceptions, reinforcing factors, and enabling factors.
(10) In any case, Von Trier himself is apparently siding with Melancholia's sternest critics.
(11) The extended edition of Lars von Trier's controversial new film Nymphomaniac was unveiled at the Berlin film festival, accompanied by the kind of press-baiting shenanigans that equalled, if not topped, those that followed the debut of Von Trier's last film, Melancholia.
(12) Von Trier, after all, has shown a peculiar genius for winding up his audience for the best part of 20 years.
(13) Inside, there is still no trace of Von Trier himself.
(14) I threw up during the first half of [Lars von Trier’s] Melancholia.
(15) On the test trial, when saline instead of epinephrine was injected, the Trier group found a conditional enhancement of NKCA.
(16) In Von Trier's latest film, British actor Stacy Martin makes her screen debut in the role of the younger Joe.
(17) It is possible that today's conflagrations mark the end of von Trier's relationship with a festival that hitherto regarded him with a fond indulgence.
(18) First we had Lars von Trier, the smirking Mephistopheles of world cinema, who made a film about the end of the world, sprung some ill-judged gags at the press conference and was promptly banished by Cannes' directors.
(19) Von Trier's comments, the directors decided, were "unacceptable, intolerable and contrary to [Cannes'] ideals of humanity and generosity".
(20) Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook) I AM NOT FAMOUS ANYMORE January 13, 2014 The film they were successfully calling attention to promises to be Von Trier's most controversial yet.