{"id":10259,"date":"2017-12-07T03:02:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T03:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=10259"},"modified":"2017-12-08T04:37:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T04:37:17","slug":"special-jury-striking-a-jury-from-a-panel-that-is-drawn-specifically-for-a-particular-case-usually-at-a-partys-request-in-an-unusually-important-or-complicated-case-or-a-jury-selected","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=10259","title":{"rendered":"Special or “Struck” Jury – 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"},"content":{"rendered":"

special jury<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span>
\n(17c)<\/span><\/p>\n

1. A jury chosen from a panel that is drawn specifically for that case.\u00a0 *\u00a0 Such a jury is usually empaneled at a party\u2019s request in an unusually important or complicated case.<\/strong> \u2014 aka struck jury.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span>See<\/em> STRIKING A JURY. <\/span><\/p>\n

2. At common law, a jury composed of persons above the rank of ordinary freeholders, usually summoned to try more important questions than those heard by ordinary juries.<\/strong> \u2014 aka good jury. <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

struck jury<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong>
\n(18c)<\/span><\/p>\n

1. A jury selected by allowing the parties to alternate in striking from a list any person whom a given party does not wish to have on the jury, until the number is reduced to the appropriate number (traditionally 12).\u00a0<\/strong> See STRIKING A JURY. <\/span><\/p>\n

2.<\/strong> See\u00a0special jury\u00a0<\/em>(1). [1]<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Sometimes called a special jury, a jury impaneled for a particular case, and not from the regular jury panel.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

2. A jury drawn by the exercise of “strikes,” each party being entitled to delete a certain number of names from a list prepared by a jury commissioner or other official.<\/strong> [2]<\/span><\/p>\n

1. A jury chosen from a panel drawn for a particular case, not from the regular panel, sometimes called a special jury.\u00a0 A jury drawn by the exercixe of strikes, each party being entitled to strike a certain numbe of tnames of persons appearing as qualified jurors on a special enire drawn and summoned for the case.\u00a0 31 Am J Rev ed Jury \u00a7 90.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A jury selected by an officer authorized by law, as a jury commissioner, instead of bwing drawn from the wheel, as in the case of common jurors.\u00a0 State v Withrow, <\/em>133 Mo 500, 513.<\/strong> [3]<\/span><\/p>\n

striking a jury<\/span>:<\/span>
\n<\/strong>(1859)<\/span><\/p>\n

1. The selecting of a jury out of all the candidates available to serve on a jury, especially, the selecting of a special jury.<\/strong> [1]<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]:\u00a0Black\u2019s Law Dictionary\u00a0<\/a>Deluxe Tenth Edition<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by Henry Campbell Black, Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner. ISBN: 978-0-314-61300-4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[2]: Ballantine\u2019s Law Dictionary\u00a0<\/a>Legal Assistant Edition<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Jack Ballantine\u00a0(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Doctored<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by\u00a0Jack G. Handler,\u00a0J.D.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a9 1994 Delmar by Thomson Learning.\u00a0 ISBN 0-8273-4874-6.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[3]: Ballantine\u2019s Law Dictionary\u00a0<\/a>with Pronunciations
\n<\/em>Third Edition<\/a>\u00a0by James A. Ballantine\u00a0(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Edited by William S. Anderson.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a9 1969 by THE LAWYER\u2019S CO-OPERATIVE PUBLISHING COMPANY.\u00a0 Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 68-30931<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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