0 present participle of nobble
1 to make something fail, especially to make a horse in a race fail by giving it drugs
2 to persuade someone to do what you want them to do, especially by using money or threats:
3 to intentionally catch the attention of someone so that you can talk to them:
Jury tampering and nobbling are rare in our system, because it is almost impossible to corrupt an entire jury.
It is right that there should be retrials when jury nobbling occurs.
That case related to an instance of jury nobbling where a complaint had been made by a member of the jury.
There is no doubt about the horrifying threatening and nobbling of the jury although it could not be effectually proved.
Then you get what may be called fake nobbling.
They came to the conclusion he was nobbling the horse.
Jury nobbling is made much easier when jurors themselves have a past criminal record.
There is the confidence in the court system and the jury nobbling, not by paramilitary groupings but by the legal process itself.
