jury room


noun
  1. a private room, adjacent to a courtroom, where a trial jury discusses a case and reaches its verdict.

Origin of jury room

1
First recorded in 1760–70

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How to use jury room in a sentence

  • At twelve o'clock the next day—during a recess of the court—a loud knock was heard upon the door which led to the jury-room.

    Bucholz and the Detectives | Allan Pinkerton
  • It corroborated exactly what 340 we learned in the jury room.

  • In the jury-room they can show them what's what; that is where they know their chance is coming.

    The Man in Court | Frederic DeWitt Wells
  • The attendant asks for the bill and returns to the jury-room.

    The Man in Court | Frederic DeWitt Wells
  • There must have been something very much amiss in the jury-room.

    The Man in Court | Frederic DeWitt Wells