Jury Pool - Law Dictionary Search Results
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jury pool : the body of prospective jurors summoned for jury duty ...
pool
pool 1 : an aggregation of the interests, obligations, or undertakings of several parties working together [an insurance ] 2 : a group of people available for some purpose see also jury pool vt : to combine (as assets or votes) in a common form or effort ;esp : to combine (interests) so as not to have a merger of companies considered a purchase for accounting purposes ...
cognizable
cognizable 1 : capable of being known ;specif : capable of being recognized as a group because of a common characteristic (as race or gender) NOTE: Systematic exclusion of members of a cognizable group from a jury violates the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution, which requires that jurors be selected from jury pools that represent a fair cross section of the community. 2 : capable of being judicially heard and determined [a claim] ...
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