petit jury
petty jury

Any petit jury is selected from a pool by the prosecution and defense.

A federal petit jury consists of 12 members and the verdict must be unanimous.

Grand juries serve an entirely different function than petit juries.

Example: "We're sort of like the petit jury.

It is modeled in some ways on the grand jury / petit jury system.

Other significant interior spaces are the courtroom, and the original Petit Jury room and rear hall of the third floor.

Petit juries, usually composed of 12 members, decide in a public trial whether the state has proved the charges against the defendants beyond a reasonable doubt.

A defendant has no right to a petit jury composed in whole or in part of persons of his own race.

In civil cases, a petit jury determines liability and damages based upon jury instructions provided by the judge.

When used alone the term jury usually refers to a petit jury, rather than a grand jury.

It was the same day that a petit jury gave Marion Barry his victory over sleazealotry.

The same year he was chosen to sit on the colony's petit jury, but was fined five shillings for not serving.

Petit jury (or trial jury)

A grand jury is traditionally larger than and distinguishable from the petit jury used during a trial, with at least 12 jurors.

A second independent panel of physicians is chosen as the petit jury, and a hearing officer is chosen.

The medical peer review system is a quasi-judicial one, similar in some ways to the grand jury / petit jury system.

Yet, the equal protection clause does regulate the use of peremptory challenges in the selection of the petit jury from the venire.

He constructed new state prisons, modernized the probation and parole systems, and established a more orderly system of selecting grand and petit juries.

The House of Representatives, though not in every respect like a grand jury, operates much more like a grand jury than a petit jury.

There are three types of juries in the United States: criminal grand juries, criminal petit juries, and civil juries.

The hasty reader will be surprised to learn, for example, that this lawsuit involves a complaint about the use of peremptory challenges to exclude men from a petit jury.

Another petit jury will soon try a couple of bankers who are charged with slipping cash to the Clinton campaign and who wound up with a patronage plum.

Besides petit juries for jury trials and grand juries for issuing indictments, juries are sometimes used in non-legal or quasi-legal contexts.

A trial jury, also known as a petit jury, is made up of six to 12 people for a civil trial and 12 people for a criminal trial.

Jones was the first lawyer in Arkansas to raise the question that Negro persons had not been permitted to serve on the grand and petit juries, although many were qualified.

The petty jury having been sworn, the remaining portion of this awful scene was very quickly gone through."

First in 1642 and last in 1662, he was assigned to at least five grand and petty juries.

He served on six juries between 1641 and 1663 and twelve petty juries between 1644 and 1670.

The grand jury were landowners, and the petty jury were farmers; both judge and jury were churchmen of the prevailing type.

A full Court is made up of a 3-judge panel and a petty jury of 9 jurors (vs. 12 jurors on appeal), who, together, render verdicts, and if a conviction is handed down, also determine a sentence.

The Assizes themselves consisted of a judge of the Court of King's Bench, or after the Judicature (Ireland) Acts, the High Court of Justice in Ireland, sitting with a petty jury.

A grand jury is so named because traditionally it has a greater number of jurors than a trial jury (also known as a petit jury or, in English usage the spelling can be petty jury, from the French for small).

If a bill was thrown out, although it could not again be preferred to the grand jury during the same assizes or sessions, it could be preferred at subsequent assizes or sessions, but not of course in respect of the same offence if a petty jury had returned a verdict.