jury room

collocation in English

meaningsofjuryandroom

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jury
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk
/ˈdʒʊə.ri/us
/ˈdʒʊr.i/
a group of people who have been chosen to listen to all the facts in a trial in a law court and to decide if a person is guilty or not guilty, or if a claim has ...
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room
noun
uk
/ruːm/us
/ruːm/
a part of the inside of a building that is separated from other parts by walls, floor, ...
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(Definition ofjuryandroomfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I cannot say what goes on in thejuryroom.
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Is it the quality of the evidence put before the jury or the quality of the deliberations in thejuryroom?
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Next it will clearly breach the secrecy of thejuryroom.
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The average juryman derives his strength and protection from the very anonymity which the secrecy of proceedings in thejuryroomgives him.
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I do not think that a discussion with 11 other people in ajuryroomwill enable any of us to know.
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One does not know what goes on in thejuryroom.
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So there is very little in the way of a common law contempt that can deal with the disclosure ofjuryroomsecrets.
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In thejuryroom, however, the judge's summing-up was immediately forgotten.
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I do not want the confidentiality of thejuryroombroken into.
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It would not have been possible to conduct that inquiry without knowing effectively what went on in thejuryroom.
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What about the far-reaching difficulties that would stem from the discovery that some irregularity had occurred in thejuryroom?
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Publication of details of what happened in thejuryroomshould be contempt, and publication would then be at peril.
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First, should the law ever allow the secrets of thejuryroomto be disclosed?
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Any such inquiry would mean violating the secrecy of thejuryroom, and strong grounds are necessary before such an inquiry could be mounted.
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A problem is that under the present rules an interpreter for the deaf may not sit in thejuryroom.
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None of us knows what goes on in thejuryroom.
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Discussions about what goes on in ajuryroommust be conducted on the basis of assumption, speculation and belief—particularly the latter.
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It applies, surely, far beyond thejuryroom.
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Nevertheless, they recognised that it was undesirable for jurors to reveal what had passed in thejuryroomeven after the conclusion of proceedings.
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However, on entry into thejuryroom, things deteriorated fast.
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