Sentence examples for local jury from inspiring English sources

Homespun local justice was preferred, as was the common sense of the local jury.

"Therefore, it was a common practice of local jury commissioners to send fewer qualification subpoenas to women than men".

(Jurors are told to check with the local jury commissioner's office on Monday night for further instructions).

The conclusion that trial counsel deliberately chose to risk the mercy of a local jury, rather than court more imponderable hazards elsewhere, seems inescapable.

That a local jury is poised to be seated is considered a feat in this polarizing case, widely described as the biggest trial in the history of this small city one hour's drive north of Walt Disney World.

Every major roadway and every neighborhood in Chardon and in surrounding communities has memorials to the victims, defense lawyers said, and the grief poses a risk that any local jury will be biased against him.

Whether to seek the death penalty has been a charged issue in New York, involving questions of limited resources and the sensibilities of local juries.

The court sat at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and heard very few cases, but in principle it appeared to threaten the cherished British privilege of trials by local juries.

Believing that the rule of law protected against arbitrary or unjust authority, the civil courts practiced speedy justice, empowered local juries and encouraged reconciliation and restitution.

Relative calm returned, though it was ruffled on the New England coastline by frequent incidents of defiance of customs officers, who could get no support from local juries.

He is the author of The Preemption War: When Federal Bureaucracies Trump Local Juries and Reinventing Rationality: The Role of Regulatory Analysis in the Federal Bureaucracy.