impaneled

Chosen for jury

Impaneled is the past tense of impanel, meaning to enroll people on a jury or other official panel.

A judge impanels a jury by selecting and swearing in its members: The grand jury was impaneled to investigate corruption charges.

Also spelled impanelled.

The variant empaneled is equally common.

jury

jurors

Trial decision makers

seated · sworn · deliberation · trial · verdict · foreperson · courthouse · service · duty · peers

tribunal

commission

Payment for services rendered

appointed · convened · investigation · members · hearing · findings · arbitration · adjudication · ethics · disciplinary

grand jury

indictment

Formal charge from jury

prosecutor · witnesses · evidence · charges · felony · secret · presentment · criminal · district attorney · foreman

Opposites
jury service status

impaneleddismissed

Released from duty

excused · discharged · released · removed · struck

Family

impanel, impanels, impaneling, impanelling

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