How to Use juror in a Sentence

juror

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • As Bill points out, the parties will have to vet hundreds of potential jurors — maybe a thousand or more.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Recalling that later, at Sundance, the jurors praised her for the exact same things.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The league also hopes to persuade Gutierrez to call a do-over on grounds the jurors confused an overcharge with a discount.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 31 July 2024
  • Phillips caused $2 million in monetary harm to the NRA, the jurors found, while Frazer did not cause any monetary harm to the group.
    Melissa Chan, NBC News, 29 July 2024
  • The new requirement states that just eight of 12 jurors must agree to sentence someone to death, one of the lowest thresholds in the nation.
    Tim Craig, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2023
  • Streett pleaded with jurors in her closing statements to have mercy on her client and spare her life.
    Tracy Neal, arkansasonline.com, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Even once the grand jury is completed, the jurors aren’t allowed to talk about what was said and done unless they are ordered to do so by the court.
    Rebecca Boone, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
  • That was made more difficult when his trial was split in two, leaving him with two sets of jurors to win over.
    WIRED, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Bill Rankin: Some of the jurors were actually clicking the trigger.
    Maureen Maher, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2024
  • That happened the night before a juror who had already been seated asked to be excused.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 24 Apr. 2024
  • An appeals court that reviewed Ervin’s conviction found that the prosecutor struck 20% of non-Black jurors and 82% of Black jurors.
    Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2024

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