juries
Verdict-rendering groups
Juries is the plural of jury—a group of citizens sworn to hear evidence and deliver a verdict in legal proceedings.
Trial juries decide guilt or liability; grand juries determine whether charges should be brought.
The phrase the jury is still out means a matter remains undecided: The jury is still out on whether remote work improves productivity.
Summoned potential jurors
- screeningEvaluative selection process
- qualificationRequired skill or condition
- exemptionRelease from requirement
- poolCollective fund or basin
summons · panel · empanelment · strike · alternates · questionnaire · bias · impartiality
Firmly held belief
- acquittalFormal clearing of charges
- guiltyResponsible for wrongdoing
- sentenceComplete thought, grammatically
- hungFastened from above
deadlocked · unanimous · majority · polling · deliberation · finding · judgment · liability
Judicial proceedings chamber
- testimonySworn statement as evidence
- evidenceFacts supporting truth
- prosecutionPursuing legal charges
- defenseProtection against harm
witness · judge · plaintiff · defendant · attorney · cross-examination · objection · exhibits
Members of a nation
- communityCollective of connected people
- representativeOne who acts for another
- democracyRule by the people
- publicAvailable to all
commoners · electorate · cross-section · impartial · unbiased · laypersons · conscience · peers
Exchange of ideas
- weighingMeasuring mass or heft
- considerationCareful thought or compensation
- debateFormal argument on issues
- reasoningDrawing logical conclusions
reflection · consultation · analysis · evaluation · assessment · conferring · impasse · deadlock
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Summoned potential jurors
- screeningEvaluative selection process
- qualificationRequired skill or condition
- exemptionRelease from requirement
pool · summons · panel · empanelment · strike · alternates · questionnaire · bias · impartiality · hardship
conviction
Firmly held belief
- acquittalFormal clearing of charges
- guiltyResponsible for wrongdoing
- sentenceComplete thought, grammatically
hung · deadlocked · unanimous · majority · polling · deliberation · finding · judgment · liability · damages
courtroom
Judicial proceedings chamber
- testimonySworn statement as evidence
- evidenceFacts supporting truth
- prosecutionPursuing legal charges
defense · witness · judge · plaintiff · defendant · attorney · cross-examination · objection · exhibits · charges
citizens
Members of a nation
- communityCollective of connected people
- representativeOne who acts for another
- democracyRule by the people
public · commoners · electorate · cross-section · impartial · unbiased · laypersons · conscience · peers · service
discussion
Exchange of ideas
- weighingMeasuring mass or heft
- considerationCareful thought or compensation
- debateFormal argument on issues
reasoning · reflection · consultation · analysis · evaluation · assessment · conferring · impasse · deadlock · unanimous
grand
Imposing or splendid
criminal · coroner · federal · state · advisory · blue-ribbon · special · investigative · inquest · indictment
- justicecourtroom, trials, retributive justice, courts, gavel
- civil litigationlawsuits, plaintiffs, defendants, verdicts, judgments
- court administrationclerks, court clerks, docket, dockets, docketing
- criminal courtstrials, courtroom, verdicts, defendants, accused
- law and societysocial control, legal institutions, legal systems, social order, rule of law
- Greek lawdike, archon, lawgivers, written law, codification
juriesjudges
Legal proceeding overseers
bench · magistrates · arbitrators · court officers · tribunals
- federal jurisdictionLegal domain of central government
- grand juriesPanels determining criminal charges
- hung juriesTrial groups without unanimous verdicts
- police jurisdictionArea officers patrol legally
- legal jurisdictionArea under court authority
- local jurisdictionGoverning power of an area