to impanel
- verb
- /ɪmˈpænəl/
- Formal
- In Brooklyn, District Attorney Charles J. Hynes announced Thursday that he would impanel a grand jury to investigate price gouging.
- impaneled jury
Booyah grand jury, cable news, Tell us why the grand jury was impaneled.
- Booyah grand jury, cable news, Tell us why the grand jury was impaneled.
- And he was going to impanel a grand jury to go after Epstein, but he was told to stand out because Epstein was intelligence.
- This isn't Navalny, this is a grand jury was impaneled of normal New Yorkers, not Alvin Bragg.
Examples
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Federal grand juries are constantly issuing indictments that are peripheral to the issue they were impaneled to consider.
Blog text (5) -
It took six days to impanel that jury.
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You Honor, prosecution moves a jury be impaneled.
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We, the jury, duly impaneled in the above entitled action... ...find the defendant, Ben Garvey, guilty.
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The president impaneled experts and blue-ribbon commissions; the Senate held hearings.
Fiction book (2002) -
In February 1956, the United States Attorneys in San Francisco and New York impaneled grand juries to investigate Chinese fraudulent entry.
Academic text (1998) -
Omitting the caption, the verdict reads as follows: 'We the jury, being duly impaneled and sworn, do find the defendant, Andrea Marie Hammermill, not guilty.'
Fiction book (1994) -
The judge announced that they would impanel a jury next week to hear the case.
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After selecting suitable candidates, the court will impanel the jury this afternoon.
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It is essential to impanel a diverse jury to ensure a fair trial.
Synonyms
To choose people from a list to serve on a jury
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Impanel comes from the prefix in- meaning 'in' and the word panel, which means 'group' or 'list'. So to impanel someone is to put them 'in' a panel, that is, to officially choose and enroll them as jurors.