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Struck jury
Struck Struck, imp. & p. p. of Strike. Struck jury (Law), a special jury, composed of persons having special knowledge or qualifications, selected by striking from the panel of jurors a certain number for each party, leaving the number required by law to try the cause.

Meaning of Struck jury from wikipedia

- A struck jury is a multi-step process of selecting a jury from a pool. First potential jurors are eliminated for hardship. Second jurors are eliminated...
- Jury nullification, also known in the United Kingdom as jury equity, or a perverse verdict, is when the jury in a criminal trial gives a verdict of not...
- Racial discrimination in jury selection is specifically prohibited by law in many jurisdictions throughout the world. In the United States, it has been...
- In the United States, jury nullification occurs when a jury in a criminal case reaches a verdict contrary to the weight of evidence, sometimes because...
- otherwise be struck may be rehabilitated should they state a willingness to consider life imprisonment. The use of a death-qualified jury was found to...
- language [group]; party jury; the right to a jury disproportionally chosen from the accused's ethnic group; see struck jury. de minimis non curat lex...
- military draft exemption Swain v. Alabama 380 U.S. 202 (1965) use of struck jury Hanna v. Plumer 380 U.S. 460 (1965) interpretation of the Erie doctrine...
- before the Supreme Court of the United States regarding the legality of a struck jury. Swain, a black man, was indicted and convicted of rape in the Circuit...
- The ostrich instruction is a jury instruction that the requirement of knowledge to establish a guilty mind (mens rea), is satisfied by deliberate ignorance...
- A bench trial is a trial by judge, as opposed to a jury. The term applies most appropriately to any administrative hearing in relation to a summary offense...