Sentence examples for sat on juries from inspiring English sources

I have sat on juries that have awarded him commissions.

Nonetheless, New Orleans had fully integrated schools until 1877, and in North Carolina former slaves routinely sat on juries alongside whites.

He owned farms, several town lots and livestock, paid taxes, sat on juries, appraised estates, served on country slave patrols, and guarded prisoners.

Didn't it give women the right to sit on juries, too? A. No.

But the bill to allow noncitizens to sit on juries has proved more controversial.

I have a Kindle, and I sit on juries for book prizes.

In many states, felons lose the right to vote and sit on juries for ever.

In retirement she mostly lived quietly at home but was persuaded to sit on juries of vocal competitions and, less often, to present master classes.

In some states they couldn't sit on juries; in others, their husbands had control not only of their property but also of their earnings.

This is despite an impressive and sometimes unacknowledged history of progressive social campaigning: in the 1920s, the WI fought for the right for women to sit on juries, and in the 1940s it argued for equal pay.

There are time banks – especially in Washington DC, in the youth justice system – that pay teenagers to sit on juries trying other teenagers (they use their time credits to buy computers).