How to Use impanel in a Sentence

impanel

verb
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  • Officials in the court system, the second largest in the state, hope to impanel a jury the week of Oct. 12 and hold a trial then.
    — Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Called out by the judge In January, a jury was impaneled to hear the case against Timmons and Rainey.
    — Mensah M. Dean, Philly.com, 29 May 2018
  • Many more grand juries need to be impaneled and empowered to find and declare the truth.
    — WSJ, 21 Aug. 2018
  • But O’Neill appeared certain that at least one facet of the case would remain the same – his ability to impanel a fair jury.
    — Jeremy Roebuck, Philly.com, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The Grand Jury For Bragg, the new year began by impaneling a grand jury to hear evidence in the hush-money case.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023
  • At the end of last week, Davis announced the court had identified enough eligible jurors to impanel a jury.
    — Jane C. Timm, NBC News, 17 Apr. 2023
  • While some other 9th Circuit judges have said the president’s order is on sound legal ground, they were not impaneled on either case.
    — Lee Ross, Fox News, 15 May 2017
  • On Wallace’s second day of freedom, the state impanelled a grand jury, which reindicted him for Miller’s murder.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2017
  • Pecker was one of the first witnesses the grand jury called in January, shortly after it was impaneled.
    — Nicholas Reimann, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • New York prosecutors plan to impanel a grand jury in the coming weeks to hear evidence against Durst in the disappearance of Kathie Durst.
    — Fox News, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The move gives Durham the power to subpoena witnesses and documents and to impanel a grand jury that could bring criminal charges.
    — Paula Reid, CBS News, 24 Oct. 2019
  • She was impaneled as an alternate in an assault case, where the defendant was an African American man.
    — John Horn, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2019
  • In just five months, Mueller's team has impaneled a federal grand jury and now is charging Trump's former campaign chairman.
    — Amber Phillips, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Well, Sean, hopefully it's being fixed with a grand jury being impaneled.
    — Fox News, 14 Sep. 2018
  • The probe was disclosed in open court by a lawyer representing a witness who was summoned to appear before a grand jury impaneled to review the evidence.
    — Joe Mayes, Bloomberg.com, 4 July 2017
  • The request to impanel such a grand jury must be approved by a majority of the judges on the county’s superior court, who are elected in nonpartisan races.
    — Cameron McWhirter, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The Wall Street Journal earlier reported a grand jury was impaneled.
    — Reuters, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2017
  • The Times reported that the change in status gives Durham the power to subpoena witness testimony and documents, to impanel a grand jury and to file criminal charges.
    — NBC News, 26 Oct. 2019
  • Legal experts warn not to read too much into a report that special counsel Robert Mueller has impaneled a grand jury as part of his probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
    — Emma Talkoff, Time, 3 Aug. 2017
  • But when a defendant pleads guilty before trial to a capital felony, as Mr. Cruz did, the court must impanel a jury just for sentencing, unless the defendant waives the right to have a jury make the determination.
    — New York Times, 18 July 2022
  • The move gives the prosecutor running it, John Durham, the power to subpoena witness testimony and documents, to impanel a grand jury, and to file criminal charges.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2019
  • That would mean that Willis or other DAs would have to impanel a grand jury from beyond their territories, drawing in more residents from rural, conservative corners of the state.
    — Christian Boone, ajc, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Westchester County prosecutors will impanel a grand jury in the coming weeks to hear evidence against Robert Durst in the 1982 disappearance of his first wife, according to reports.
    — Fox News, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Reports that Mueller recently impaneled a federal grand jury in Washington suggest Trump’s threats had no effect on him.
    — Margaret Hartmann, Daily Intelligencer, 4 Aug. 2017
  • The prosecutor’s request to impanel such a grand jury had to be approved by a majority of the judges on the county’s superior court, who are elected in nonpartisan races.
    — Cameron McWhirter, WSJ, 2 May 2022
  • If the bill fails, Democrats could instead impanel a select committee, like the ones Republicans created to investigate the Benghazi attack, which would give Democrats near-total control over the process.
    — Andrew Solender, Forbes, 25 May 2021
  • That includes the power to compel testimony from witnesses and to impanel a grand jury to consider criminal charges.
    — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The review upgraded into a criminal investigation in the fall, allowing Durham the power to impanel a grand jury and hand down indictments.
    — Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 23 Mar. 2020
  • IndyStar then submitted several basic questions to the department: How many firearms review boards have been impaneled since 2010?
    — Ryan Martin, Indianapolis Star, 4 Feb. 2018
  • The review upgraded into a criminal investigation in the fall, giving the prosecutor the power to impanel a grand jury and hand down indictments, and is expected to wrap up sometime in the summer.
    — Daniel Chaitin, Washington Examiner, 12 Apr. 2020

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