Word: impanel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Inquiries by the FBI and the state police are under way in West Virginia. William Kolibash, U.S. Attorney for northern West Virginia, will impanel a grand jury Sept. 15 to probe possible murder conspiracy and drug dealing at New Vrindaban. Said Kolibash: "The Bryant homicide triggered the inquiry...
...judges, however, empowered Silverman to investigate "any other allegation or evidence of violation of any federal criminal law by Secretary Donovan." Unlike the Justice Department in its inquiry, Silverman will have authority to grant legal immunity to any key prosecution witnesses. Should the inquiry find supportive evidence, Silverman can impanel a grand jury to seek criminal charges...
...opinion we greatly overuse the jury system. It is sheer waste to impanel a jury for every auto-accident case. In highly technical civil suits, experienced and impartial judges can get to the merits in a fraction of the time. It is usually the side that feels that those merits need to be skirted that demands a jury...
...Miami, it took three weeks to impanel jurors in the trial of four blacks accused of beating three whites to death during last year's rioting, and the pressure was so great that one prospective juror suffered a respiratory seizure. The chosen jury was sequestered in a motel, forbidden to have television or telephones, constantly watched by three police officers. "We walked around like little soldiers," recalls Foreman Dale Dollar, 25, a black who works for Florida Power & Light Co. "It felt like the jury was on trial...