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Example sentences for: juries
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The chief conclusions: Judges are more likely than juries to rule for the plaintiff, but juries generally award larger damage amounts.
A story explores a new phenomenon of urban juries: Black women jurors are causing mistrials by refusing to convict black men despite overwhelming evidence of guilt.
The Los Angeles Times clucks that "public trust in product liability cases tried by juries might well be going down the drain with these excessive awards ."
In targeting esoteric words used by lawyers in place of ordinary ones under the pretense of precision, it seems to me that the author is wasting ammunition on words like reasonable, substantial , and satisfactory . They are words of ordinary speech, with which juries are quite comfortable, and lawyers are as aware as everybody else that they are imprecise.
Even witnesses only tangentially connected to the various Clinton scandals get called before juries again and again, racking up monstrous legal fees and losing days of work.