Sentence examples for juries a from inspiring English sources

Only in Connecticut and Pennsylvania are grand juries a thing of the past.

Several legislatures have acted quickly, sometimes by convening special sessions, to fix their statutes by giving juries a larger role.

Most important, it gave juries a framework to decide whom to put to death, asking them to balance aggravating factors against mitigating ones.

Although two trials in 1964 resulted in hung juries, a leak of Sovereignty Commission records led to a new trial and the conviction of Mr Beckwith in 1994.

Early in my career as a prosecutor, when I first began selecting juries, a senior colleague warned me about men with beards.

In cases involving hung juries, a lone holdout may not be a sign of a significant problem for prosecutors, while a more equally divided jury could be.

"Plaintiffs have demanded a jury, and a jury they shall have".

The jury, an ancient institution, disagreed with the latter.

The trial resulted in a hung-jury and a mistrial.

Because a death-qualified jury is a convicting jury.

Grand juries have an easier job.