Word: impanel
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...telegram further urged that the Justice Department impanel an "impartial federal grand jury" to investigate last Spring's events and the work of the state grand jury...
Nevertheless, many people were wondering if the Peoria proceedings were dragging more slowly than was really necessary. In the heavily publicized fraud trial of Influence Peddler Bobby Baker in January, it took only one day to impanel a jury. Federal Judge Oliver Gasch said, "I see no reason why jury selection should be the slowest process in the American system of justice." The process is much swifter in federal courts, because judges-not attorneys-usually question prospective jurors. But even without the built-in difficulties of digging up unprejudiced jurors for Speck, the Peoria selection was destined by Illinois state...
Professor William L. Crum of the University of California writes that the current system of taxing corporation profits and dividends impanel a far heavier burden on the income of stockholders than it does upon the becomes of men who do not own stocks...
...render a verdict in all cases." Mr. Boyden, '86, opened the debate for the affirmative. He argued that the present system of juries allows that while the better part of the population is exonerated, the majority are not of exceptional intellect. It is very difficult in criminal cases to impanel a jury who are wholly unpredjudiced, while in civil cases a higher order of men are required than we get at present. He cited the cause of the late Cincinnati riot as an argument in favor of abolishing the present system of trial by jury. Mr. Fraser, '86. opened...