Jury

A jury is a body of persons convened to render an impartial verdict (finding of fact) on a legal question officially submitted to them, or to set a penalty or judgement in a jury trial of a court of law.

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In most criminal justice systems which require juries, panels are initially selected at random from the adult population of the district served by the court concerned. A person who is serving on (that is, part of) a jury is known as a juror.

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The requirements for a jury are fairly universal. The number of jurors must be a specified size (often but not always 12), and since there is always the possibility of jurors not completing the trial for health or other reasons, often some alternate jurors are nominated, who will also follow the trial (but do not take part in deciding the verdict), as a precaution in case a new juror is needed part way through the trial.

Verdict: In law, a verdict is the judgment of a case before a court of law. The term literally means "to speak the truth" and is derived from Middle English verdit, from Anglo-Norman: a compound of ver ("true," from the Latin vērus) and dit ("speech," from the Latin dictum, the neuter form of dīcer...

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Penalty: A penalty is a punishment:...

Jury related Images and Photos (experimental)

Runaway Jury	Attentive Jury	Trial by Jury	The Jury of the Paris Conservatoire c. 1871
Trial By Jury 1994	Trial By Jury 1994