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jury definition - legal

n

A group of individuals selected and sworn in to serve as the finders of fact in a civil or criminal trial, or in the case of a grand jury, to decide whether the facts warrant an indictment of the defendant.
blue-ribbon jury
A jury for which only highly educated individuals have been selected, because they will be dealing with technical subject matter.
grand jury
A jury selected and sworn in by a prosecutor to determine whether to issue indictments.
petit jury
A jury selected to decide the facts in a trial (effectively, any jury other than a grand jury).

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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