impaneling

impaneling
The act of selecting a jury from a list of potential jurors.
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Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary. . 2009.

impaneling
n.
   the act of selecting a jury from the list of potential jurors, called the "panel" or "venire."
   The steps are
   1) drawing names at random from a large number of jurors called;
   2) seating 12 tentative jurors (or fewer where agreed to);
   3) hearing individual juror requests for being excused, to be determined by the judge;
   4) questions from judge and lawyers for both sides, called "voir dire";
   5) challenges of tentative jurors either for cause (decided by the judge) or peremptory (no reason given) by the lawyers;
   6) swearing in the jurors who survive this process.
   See also: challenge, juror, jury, panel, venire, voir dire

Law dictionary. . 2013.

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