"strike" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They can each object to 10 others more or less arbitrarily - the so-called peremptory strikes.
- In capital cases, each side gets 20 peremptory strikes.
- In other felony cases, the defendant gets 10 peremptory strikes and the government gets 6.
- In misdemeanor cases, each side has 3 peremptory strikes.
- They used peremptory strikes - ones not requiring a reason - to remove all five eligible potential jurors who were black.
- The prosecution had used its peremptory strikes to remove 10 of 11 black potential jurors.
- Ordinarily, lawyers can refuse a certain number of potential jurors by using peremptory "strikes," which do not have to be justified.
- To be sure, petitioner, a man, used all but one of his peremptory strikes to remove women from the jury.
- If not, Diana could choose to use one of her peremptory strikes.
- "I get the impression that it is more a peremptory strike than a war."
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