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  • noun Plural form of venireman. The panel or a group of potential jurors.

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Examples

  • In the courtroom, a judge could simply decide that since the disparate treatment was suffered by the defendant and not the excused veniremen, it would henceforth be true as a matter of law that singling out black jurors is discriminatory.

    Everyone’s Talking about Linda Hirshman’s “Homeward Bound” 2005

  • Judge Goff -- All special veniremen will please stand and be sworn in.

    Out of the Ditch; A True Story of an Ex-Slave J. Vance Lewis 1910

  • But before he reached the court-house, where for a half-hour yet the cupola bell would not clang out its summons to veniremen and witnesses, he found fresh fuel for his wrath.

    The Call of the Cumberlands Charles Neville Buck 1904

  • Even though cops rarely get to sit on juries, thus making the veniremen more likely to associate themselves with the non-law enforcement person than the cop, they are surrounded by a myth that makes the rest of us credit their judgment far above mere mortals.

    Simple Justice 2009

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