trial jury

noun

|Updated on: 10 Jul 2018

Definition of trial jury

: a jury impaneled to try a cause : petit jury

Recent Examples of trial jury from the Web

Punitive damages, which a trial jury could additionally award as punishment to compensate a plaintiff for the losses suffered due to harm caused by the defendant, are limited to double the amount of compensatory damages, the law says.

— james f. mccarty, cleveland.com, "University Hospitals seeks dismissal of first fertility clinic lawsuits," 11 May 2018
Punitive damages, which a trial jury could additionally award as punishment to compensate a plaintiff for the losses suffered due to harm caused by the defendant, are limited to double the amount of compensatory damages, the law says.

— james f. mccarty, cleveland.com, "University Hospitals seeks dismissal of first fertility clinic lawsuits," 11 May 2018
Punitive damages, which a trial jury could additionally award as punishment to compensate a plaintiff for the losses suffered due to harm caused by the defendant, are limited to double the amount of compensatory damages, the law says.

— james f. mccarty, cleveland.com, "University Hospitals seeks dismissal of first fertility clinic lawsuits," 11 May 2018
Punitive damages, which a trial jury could additionally award as punishment to compensate a plaintiff for the losses suffered due to harm caused by the defendant, are limited to double the amount of compensatory damages, the law says.

— james f. mccarty, cleveland.com, "University Hospitals seeks dismissal of first fertility clinic lawsuits," 11 May 2018
Punitive damages, which a trial jury could additionally award as punishment to compensate a plaintiff for the losses suffered due to harm caused by the defendant, are limited to double the amount of compensatory damages, the law says.

— james f. mccarty, cleveland.com, "University Hospitals seeks dismissal of first fertility clinic lawsuits," 11 May 2018
Unlike criminal trials, civil trial jury decisions in California only require three-quarters of the jurors to agree.

— avi selk, Washington Post, "A woman’s hanging at a mansion was a suicide, police decided. A civil jury says they’re wrong.," 5 Apr. 2018
Punitive damages, which a trial jury could additionally award as punishment to compensate a plaintiff for the losses suffered due to harm caused by the defendant, are limited to double the amount of compensatory damages, the law says.

— staff, cleveland.com, "Comment here on cleveland.com court and crime stories for Saturday, March 17, 2018," 17 Mar. 2018
Their role is different from a trial jury, which is usually made up of six or 12 jurors and a couple of alternates to hear evidence and decide whether a person is guilty or not guilty.

— paula mcmahon, Sun-Sentinel.com, "Nikolas Cruz's school shooting case goes to grand jury next week," 1 Mar. 2018

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