| 词汇 | grand-jury |
| 释义 | grand jury noun[ C ] uk /ˌɡrænd ˈdʒʊə.ri/ us /ˌɡrænd ˈdʒʊr.i/ in the US, a group of people who decide if a person who has been charged with a crime should be given a trial in a law court（美国）大陪审团 Judges & juries bench chief justice circuit judge court of inquiry dismiss empanel judge jurist juror jury nullification jury service justice recuse resentence rule set something aside sheriff sum sum (something/someone) up worship grand jury | American Dictionarygrand jury noun[ C ] us/ˈɡrænd ˈdʒʊər·i/ law a group of people who decide whether a person who has been accused of a crime should be given a trial in court or should be released grand jury | Business Englishgrand jury noun[ C ] LAW USukus a group of people who decide if there is enough information to believe that a crime has been committed to begin a trial: Mr. Barney was the first witness to testify before the grand jury. grand jury investigation/testimony/indictment Examples of grand jurygrand jury In the case of the assize grandjury the study of the period before 1714 is as yet impossible, due to lack of sources. However, land alone could not guarantee a man a grandjury seat. These seem to have included grandjury membership. Yet being a magistrate did not guarantee a man a place on a grandjury, nor were grand juries composed wholly of magistrates. Ultimately, gaining a grandjury seat depended on being selected for service by the high sheriff. The evidence also suggests that a man's religion and his politics played some part in defining his suitability for grandjury service. Rather, service on the grandjury reached some way down the social scale, and could be undertaken by men from outside the established church. Holding an important agency seems to have qualified a man for grandjury service from a much earlier date, however. When this failed, he asked a grandjury for relief, but none was offered. Several local officers, including clerks of the peace and gaolers, were appointed and paid by the grandjury. Criminal prosecutions at the assizes almost invariably began by the submitting of bills of indictment, and supporting depositions, to the grandjury. Yet certain consistent developmental strands in grandjury membership are discernable. That is not to say that every land agent, any more than every large landowner, qualified for grandjury service. The political stand taken by members of the grandjury in 1641 was not an isolated incident. Only one third of the members of the 1641 grandjury can be shown to have served previously. See all examples of grand jury These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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