struck jury

struck jury   n.  A jury, especially a special jury, selected from an original panel of 48 members from which each party strikes off names until the list is reduced to the required number.

Main Entry: struck jury
Function: noun
1 : a jury that is selected from a venire of usually forty people from which potential jurors are struck by attorneys for each side alternately until a specified number (as twelve) of jurors are left
2 : SPECIAL JURY

struck jury

a group, chosen from the citizenry of a district, that has special qualifications to try a complex or important case. The blue-ribbon jury is intended to overcome the problems of ordinary juries in interpreting complex technical or commercial questions. In the United States blue-ribbon juries were provided for by statutes, the terms varying by jurisdiction. In deference to the principle of equality, the use of blue-ribbon juries is now obsolete in the United States.

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