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Meanings of peremptory challenges in English

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Usage of peremptory challenges in English
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Meanwhile the call to eliminate peremptory challenges has been gathering force.
The new yorker
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In criminal cases, the state has usually two peremptory challenges and the defendant five.
Studies in Civics
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Jesse had used all his peremptory challenges on this jury.
Gods go begging
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He'd given Jesse all the peremptory challenges he wanted.
Gods go begging
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Lawyers typically get three peremptory challenges, but in this case each side was given 20.
Reuters
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Both sides have a set number of peremptory challenges they can use to strike potential jurors.
Wired
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We have the right to fifteen peremptory challenges on a case like this, and so has the prosecution.
The Financier: A Novel
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In this way he was enabled to challenge several for cause, after all his peremptory challenges had been used.
The Gray Dawn
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It is illegal to use peremptory challenges to eliminate potential jurors on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity or religion.
Reuters
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To compensate the defendant for whatever substantial disadvantage he might suffer, the number of his peremptory challenges was materially increased.
Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909
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The low number of peremptory challenges and the high number of alternates brought objections from both the prosecution and the defense.
The reversal
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The early exhaustion of Keith's quota of peremptory challenges was significant, for McDougall rarely found it desirable to challenge at all!
The Gray Dawn
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If the offense is punishable with death or state prison for life, the state has in Minnesota seven peremptory challenges and the defendant twenty.
Studies in Civics
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Peremptory challenges were shouted to us from nowhere.
London River
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Peremptory challenges, where lawyers strike potential jurors without stating a reason, are systematically used to distort jury demographics.
The new yorker
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Peremptory challenges and the selection of alternative panelists shall occur within 45 days of the request for the panel.
North American Free Trade Agreement, 1992 Oct. 7 Tariff Phasing ...
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