Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A writ issued by a judge to a sheriff directing the summons of prospective jurors.
- noun The panel of prospective jurors from which a jury is selected.
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- noun law A
venire facias .
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- noun (law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A jury venire is not a fair cross-section if the selection system is calibrated to underrepresent a "distinctive group" in the community.
IsThatLegal? 2003
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The venire is the pool of people from whom members of juries are called, each of whom is called a venireperson.
Define That Term #13 2006
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It has been settled law for decades that the Sixth Amendment requires a jury pool or "venire" to reflect a fair cross-section of the community.
IsThatLegal? 2003
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That being said, I can see how it might be HIGHLY ALARMING for a woman to receive an email from a court official stating that while she thought was performing her civic duty, little did she know that another, more dastardly kind of "venire" was going on (elbow-elbow-wink-wink).
Above the Law Marin 2008
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I was part of the venire for a truly horrible case of child molestation, and while prepared to do it, I was very relieved not to be chosen as it sounded as if the evidence would be very graphic and upsetting.
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After Whitman obtained her excuse from having to serve as a juror, fortunately -- for the people of the state who want to see state laws protecting children from child molesters enforced in courtrooms that require jurors for their function -- there were still some "little people" left in the venire from which a jury could be empanelled.
David Coleman: Is Meg Whitman California's Version of Leona Helmsley? 2010
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After Whitman obtained her excuse from having to serve as a juror, fortunately -- for the people of the state who want to see state laws protecting children from child molesters enforced in courtrooms that require jurors for their function -- there were still some "little people" left in the venire from which a jury could be empanelled.
David Coleman: Is Meg Whitman California's Version of Leona Helmsley? 2010
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After Whitman obtained her excuse from having to serve as a juror, fortunately -- for the people of the state who want to see state laws protecting children from child molesters enforced in courtrooms that require jurors for their function -- there were still some "little people" left in the venire from which a jury could be empanelled.
David Coleman: Is Meg Whitman California's Version of Leona Helmsley? 2010
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Three weeks earlier, the supreme court trial courtroom known as Part 39 on the eleventh floor of the Criminal Courts Building had contained a pool of seventy-five prospective jurors, when Judge David Marvin Mason began the proceedings by asking Karp to give the venire, or jury pool, a brief description of the case and the main players in the real-life drama about to be played out in front of them.
Betrayed Robert K. Tanenbaum 2010
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Three weeks earlier, the supreme court trial courtroom known as Part 39 on the eleventh floor of the Criminal Courts Building had contained a pool of seventy-five prospective jurors, when Judge David Marvin Mason began the proceedings by asking Karp to give the venire, or jury pool, a brief description of the case and the main players in the real-life drama about to be played out in front of them.
Betrayed Robert K. Tanenbaum 2010
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