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Definition Of Jury:


nA group of individuals selected and sworn in to serve as the finders of fact in a civil or criminal trial, or in the case of a grand jury, to decide whether the facts warrant an indictment of the defendant.
blue-ribbon juryA jury for which only highly educated individuals have been selected, because they will be dealing with technical subject matter.grand juryA jury selected and sworn in by a prosecutor to determine whether to issue indictments.petit juryA jury selected to decide the facts in a trial (effectively, any jury other than a grand jury).

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