0 a group of people who have been chosen to listen to all the facts in a trial in a law court and to decide if a person is guilty or not guilty, or if a claim has been proved: --
1 a group of people who have been chosen to listen to the facts of a trial in a law court and to decide whether a person is guilty or not guilty, or whether a claim has been proved: --
2 a group of people who have been chosen to listen to the facts in a court action and decide whether a person is guilty or not guilty or whether a claim has been proved: --
A series of suspicious phone calls took place between the defendants, a jury heard yesterday.
a jury acquits/convicts/deliberates The jury convicted seven of the men of conspiracy, but acquitted nine others.
Last year a California jury awarded $172m to staff who had been forced to work through meal breaks.
He was flanked by two prison officers as he awaited the jury's verdict.
3 used to say that people have not yet decided whether something is good or bad: --
The grand jury's no bill says merely that there is insufficient evidence to indict.
The emphasis of discussion of these notions is on the states of mind involved in the judge's or jury's determining of the facts.
Acceptable excuses were more generously allowed to men than to women - men's explanations were treated as more plausible than women's by male juries and judges.
Instead, judges and juries realize the press of compassion on the emotional state of the spouse or companion, and lessen the sentence.
The admission of spectral evidence at the indictments served the principle of presumptive evidence similar to a grand jury's inquiry into probable cause.
They did not find student juries to be more lenient.
Scores ranging from 1-12 are awarded to each performance by national juries and, where possible, by audience televoting.
Evidently - scientists, historians, judges and juries ask this question about their hypotheses.
