{"id":10169,"date":"2017-12-04T23:58:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T23:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=10169"},"modified":"2018-02-12T20:59:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T20:59:04","slug":"types-of-juries","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=10169","title":{"rendered":"Types of Juries Available:"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All types of juries listed below,\u00a0except<\/em><\/span> for grand juries<\/a>, are used in both civil proceedings<\/a> and<\/em><\/span> criminal proceedings<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

All Types of Juries are<\/span><\/strong>
\nListed by Category Below:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

petit\u00a0 jury<\/span><\/a><\/strong> – usually consisting of 6 or 12 persons, summoned and empaneled in the trial of a specific case.<\/span><\/strong> \u2014 aka <\/span><\/span>petty jury<\/span><\/span><\/strong>; <\/span>trial jury<\/span><\/span><\/strong>; <\/span>common jury<\/span><\/span><\/strong>; <\/span>traverse jury<\/span><\/span><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Types of Juries
\nUsed Exclusively in Criminal Proceedings:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

grand jury<\/span><\/a> \u2013 usually 16 to 23 people who\u00a0are chosen to sit permanently for at least a month and sometimes a year and who, in ex parte proceedings, decide whether to issue indictments. <\/span><\/strong>\u2014 aka jury of indictment<\/strong><\/span>.<\/em>\u00a0 <\/strong>See<\/span><\/span> Title III Fed. R. Crim. P.<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Types of Juries used in
\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong>Specific, Complex Cases:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

special or “struck” jury<\/span><\/a><\/strong> – usually at a party\u2019s request, “striking a jury” from a panel drawn specifically for an unusually important or complicated case, followed by allowing parties to alternate in striking from a list any person whom she does not wish to have on the jury.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

blue-ribbon jury<\/span><\/a><\/strong> – consists of persons of particular advanced education or special training in order to hear a complex civil case or to sit in a grand juries.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

dual juries<\/span><\/a><\/strong> – two separately impaneled juries for two (or two sets of) defendants in a single trial \u2014 some evidence being common to both defendants, and some not \u2014 in which each jury renders a separate verdict.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

sheriff’s jury<\/span><\/a><\/strong> – selected and summoned by a sheriff to hold inquests for various purposes (i.e.<\/span> assessing damages<\/a>, ascertaining the mental condition of an alleged lunatic, or to render verdict re: ownership of personal property seized under execution).<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

General Descriptive Terms<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\nfor Various Types of Juries:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

impartial jury<\/span><\/a><\/strong> – a jury that has no opinion about the case at the start of the trial and that bases its verdict on competent legal evidence.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

jury of peers<\/span><\/a><\/strong> – a jury comprised of persons equal in status, rank, &\/or character as the accused.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Jury of the Vicinage<\/a> <\/span><\/strong>– a jury from the county (“vicinity”) where the crime occurred.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mixed Jury<\/span><\/a><\/strong> – a jury composed of both men and women or persons of different races.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Foreign Jury<\/span><\/a><\/strong> – a jury obtained from a jurisdiction other than that in which the case is brought.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Types of Juries used
\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong>to Determine Cause of Death:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Coroner’s Jury<\/a> <\/span><\/strong>– summoned by a coroner to make an inquiry into the cause of death of a person.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Inquest Jury<\/span><\/a><\/strong> – summoned by a coroner, medical examiner, sheriff, or other ministerial officer in order to determine the cause of death which involved violence or other unlawful means.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Types of Juries that Deliver
\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong>Non-Binding Verdicts:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Advisory Jury <\/span><\/a><\/strong>– a jury impaneled in a case in which the parties are not entitled to a jury trial as a matter of right, wherein the verdict is not binding on the case.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Shadow Jury<\/span><\/a><\/strong> – a group of mock jurors paid to observe a trial and report their reactions to a jury consultant hired by one of the litigants, to provide counsel with information about the jury\u2019s likely reactions to the trial.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Summary Jury Trial (SJT)<\/span><\/a><\/strong> – a court-ordered settlement technique sometimes used by the federal courts in complex cases that would otherwise require a lengthy jury trial wherein which the parties argue in a mini-trial before a mock jury, generally in order to settle the case based upon the nonbinding verdict presented by the jurors.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Types of Juries used
\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong>Historically:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Homage Jury<\/span><\/a><\/strong> – historically, a jury in a court baron, consisting of tenants who made homage to the lord.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Jury <\/span><\/strong>de medietate linguae<\/span><\/em><\/a> – historically, a jury comprised of half natives and half aliens, allowed when one of the parties is an alien (foreigner).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Jury of Matrons<\/a> <\/span><\/strong>– a jury of \u201cdiscreet and lawful women\u201d impaneled to try a question of pregnancy, as when a woman sentenced to death pleads, in stay of execution, that she is pregnant, to determine if she is feigning pregnancy.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All types of juries listed below,\u00a0except for grand juries, are used in both civil proceedings and criminal proceedings. All Types of Juries are Listed by Category Below: petit\u00a0 jury – usually consisting of 6 or 12 persons, summoned and empaneled in the trial of a specific case. \u2014 aka petty jury; trial jury; common … Continue reading Types of Juries Available:<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":10355,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10169","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10169"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13772,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10169\/revisions\/13772"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}