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  • verb Present participle of empanel.

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Examples

  • In empaneling a special investigative grand jury to probe the city's child welfare agency, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes put part of Mayor Michael Bloomberg 's administration in prosecutors' cross hairs.

    Grand Jury Turns Focus on Agency Michael Howard Saul 2011

  • This demand sent startled city attorneys scurrying to their statute books to find a precedent for empaneling a jury to hear a municipal ordinance violation, normally disposed of with a hearing, a fine, and a stern word from the bench.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • This demand sent startled city attorneys scurrying to their statute books to find a precedent for empaneling a jury to hear a municipal ordinance violation, normally disposed of with a hearing, a fine, and a stern word from the bench.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • What its proposal, emailed to reporters a couple minutes ago, actually concerns is empaneling an investigation into abuses which may have been committed by U.S. officials or agents in connection with the U.S. response to the events of September 11, 2001, or in relation to alleged acts or threats against national security, and which at a minimum will investigate detentions, renditions and the alleged use of torture and other mistreatment of detainees.

    13-Point Program To Destroy America | ATTACKERMAN 2008

  • “My personal view of whether doubt exists as to what a second jury would do is not a subtitute for actually empaneling a second jury.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Irkick v. Bell: 2009

  • My personal view of whether doubt exists as to what a second jury would do is not a subtitute for actually empaneling a second jury.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Irkick v. Bell: 2009

  • In this case, I think empaneling a new jury is a waste of time and money.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Irkick v. Bell: 2009

  • UPDATE: The Kansas City Star reported on Thursday that because of this decision, no appeal will be filed to challenge empaneling of a similar grand jury in Johnson County to investigate Planned Parenthood's activities there.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Howard M. Friedman 2007

  • UPDATE: The Kansas City Star reported on Thursday that because of this decision, no appeal will be filed to challenge empaneling of a similar grand jury in Johnson County to investigate Planned Parenthood's activities there.

    Kansas Supreme Court Refuses To Halt Voter-Initiated Grand Jury Howard M. Friedman 2007

  • Wednesday empaneling was finished; the trial started.

    John Fund and the Truth: On Trial in New York 2006

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