jury wheel

American  

noun

Law.

1. a device, containing slips with the names of prospective jurors, that when spun mixes the names for random selection.

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Etymology

Origin of jury wheel

An Americanism dating back to 1880–85

Example Sentences

In 1992, Connecticut’s federal court found that Hartford and New Britain — home to two-thirds of the state’s Black and Hispanic populations — were improperly omitted entirely from the qualified jury wheel because a computer read the letter “d” in “Hartford” as meaning all potential jurors there were deceased and because names from New Britain’s voter rolls were never inputted.

From Washington Post

They asked for dismissal of the indictment and a halt to proceedings in the case ending what they called the “reconstitution of the jury wheel”.

From The Guardian

Thereupon the clerk, in the presence of representatives of both parties, shall draw from the jury wheel or box containing the names of persons selected to serve as petit jurors in the court of common pleas in such county, twenty names which shall be drawn and counted in a like manner as for jurors in the court of common pleas.

From Project Gutenberg

Two men at the jury wheel, kickin' like a mule, Bringin' home the Rio Grande up to Liverpool.

From Project Gutenberg