How to Use juror in a Sentence

juror

noun
  • Sometimes, if the jurors can’t figure out who’s telling the truth, a rapist goes free.
    Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2024
  • One juror said women shouldn’t look back on what happened in the past with a present-day lens.
    Maane Khatchatourian, Variety, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Last week, a juror contracted the virus and was dismissed.
    Robert Legare, CBS News, 25 Oct. 2022
  • His attorney told jurors during closing arguments that the admission was a lie.
    Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024
  • But a judge is deciding whether Peterson must have a new trial because of juror misconduct.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2022
  • This summer, lawyers for Peterson argued that his conviction should be overturned and he should be given a new trial, citing juror misconduct.
    Stella Chan, CNN, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Eleven jurors in that case sent a note to the judge asking that another juror be removed because that person had shown an antigovernment bias and accused all the others of being liberals.
    Michael R. Sisak, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Silverman was convicted of manslaughter as a compromise, after a single juror disagreed with the initial charge of second-degree murder.
    Kaylee Tornay, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2022
  • But two of 12 jurors didn’t agree that my son should be obliged to stay on meds.
    Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Five out of six jurors needed to agree on each part of the verdict.
    Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Roos told jurors on Wednesday that Bankman-Fried had lied to them from the stand.
    Eli Tan, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The judge had the jurors fill out a form describing the main hurdles, then dismissed them for the day.
    John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Each juror sat at a desk, spaced 3 feet apart and arranged in a circle.
    Corinne Ramey, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
  • To reach their decisions in the civil case, at least nine of 12 jurors had to agree on the verdicts.
    Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The jurors might well wonder why such figures deserve to be the object of our pity.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
  • On the other hand, courts tend to be protective of jurors.
    Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Some jurors wiped their eyes with tissues while others sat with their hands over their mouths the video played.
    Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 12 Mar. 2024
  • In civil court in Utah, only three-fourths of jurors need to agree on a verdict.
    Sam Metz, ajc, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The judge, who has pushed to move the trial forward, decided to remove the juror from the case anyway.
    Corinne Ramey, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The lawyers approved, and she was empaneled as a juror.
    Jonah E. Bromwich, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Judge Sam Myers ruled in favor of the defense and the jurors were relieved of their duty.
    Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 18 July 2023
  • As the jurors filed out, Paxton walked toward the exit with his hands in his pockets.
    Philip Jankowski, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The age cutoff is for that very reason: jurors must be of sound mind and good moral character to sit in.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 June 2024
  • At least eight jurors had to agree that there was probable cause to indict.
    Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Townsend’s heirs failed to convince jurors that Sheeran infringed their part of Townsend’s copyright in the song.
    Reuters, NBC News, 17 May 2023
  • The reason was not made public, and the juror was replaced with an alternate.
    Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2023
  • The three judges, the defense attorney, and the prosecutor are white; there isn’t a Black juror in view.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2023
  • After the juror stayed awake during the second day of trial, the issue of falling asleep was not raised again.
    Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Judge Lewis Kaplan said the juror was not feeling well en route to court Monday morning.
    Graham Kates, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The slow process of identifying suitable jurors is likely to last at least a week.
    Graham Kates, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2024

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