How to Use juror in a Sentence

juror

noun
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  • The other juror then informed the judge in a note through the bailiff.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2022
  • But two of 12 jurors didn’t agree that my son should be obliged to stay on meds.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Five out of six jurors needed to agree on each part of the verdict.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Roos told jurors on Wednesday that Bankman-Fried had lied to them from the stand.
    — Eli Tan, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Sometimes, if the jurors can’t figure out who’s telling the truth, a rapist goes free.
    — Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The judge had the jurors fill out a form describing the main hurdles, then dismissed them for the day.
    — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Feb. 2024
  • If one juror votes for life, that will be his sentence.
    — Terry Spencer, ajc, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Each juror sat at a desk, spaced 3 feet apart and arranged in a circle.
    — Corinne Ramey, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
  • One juror said women shouldn’t look back on what happened in the past with a present-day lens.
    — Maane Khatchatourian, Variety, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Any juror who holds out on the death penalty would have to do so 17 times, once for each victim.
    — Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 17 Sep. 2022
  • To reach their decisions in the civil case, at least nine of 12 jurors had to agree on the verdicts.
    — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The jurors might well wonder why such figures deserve to be the object of our pity.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
  • On the other hand, courts tend to be protective of jurors.
    — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Some jurors wiped their eyes with tissues while others sat with their hands over their mouths the video played.
    — Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 12 Mar. 2024
  • In civil court in Utah, only three-fourths of jurors need to agree on a verdict.
    — Sam Metz, ajc, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The judge, who has pushed to move the trial forward, decided to remove the juror from the case anyway.
    — Corinne Ramey, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The lawyers approved, and she was empaneled as a juror.
    — Jonah E. Bromwich, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Judge Sam Myers ruled in favor of the defense and the jurors were relieved of their duty.
    — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 18 July 2023
  • As the jurors filed out, Paxton walked toward the exit with his hands in his pockets.
    — Philip Jankowski, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Last week, a juror contracted the virus and was dismissed.
    — Robert Legare, CBS News, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The age cutoff is for that very reason: jurors must be of sound mind and good moral character to sit in.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 June 2024
  • At least eight jurors had to agree that there was probable cause to indict.
    — Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Townsend’s heirs failed to convince jurors that Sheeran infringed their part of Townsend’s copyright in the song.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 17 May 2023
  • One juror clutched a tissue, wiping tears from her eyes.
    — Tim Craig, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The reason was not made public, and the juror was replaced with an alternate.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2023
  • The three judges, the defense attorney, and the prosecutor are white; there isn’t a Black juror in view.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2023
  • After the juror stayed awake during the second day of trial, the issue of falling asleep was not raised again.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 8 Aug. 2024
  • It was alleged that the juror would seek a guilty verdict if selected.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 4 Oct. 2022
  • However, the judge in Abbott’s trial — held in the 22nd Judicial Circuit of Missouri — did not allow that statement to be shown to jurors in the case .
    — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2024
  • In those final moments in the courtroom, many jurors were emotional, with some wiping tears away as the verdict was delivered.
    — Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 2 Nov. 2024

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