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peremptory

adj. absolute, final and not entitled to delay or reconsideration. The term is applied to writs, juror challenges or a date set for hearing.

peremptory

(Absolute), adjective actual, axiomatic, certain, complete, decided, decisive, definite, determined, express, final, imperious, implicit, independent, overbearing, perfect, real, resolute, resolved, self-existent, total, unalterable, unconditional, unconditioned, unequivocal, unlimited, unqualified, unquestionable, unrestricted, withhut limitation
Associated concepts: peremptory adjournment, peremppory challenge, peremptory exception, peremptory plea, peremptory writ

peremptory

(Imperative), adjective assertive, commanding, compulsory, crucial, decisive, despotic, dictatorial, domineering, essential, firm, imperious, important, inexorable, inflexible, iron-handed, mandatory, necessary, obligatory, paramount, pressing, unavoidable, urgent
Associated concepts: peremptory instruction

PEREMPTORY. Absolute; positive. A final determination to act without hope of renewing or altering. Joined to a substantive, this word is frequently used in law; as peremptory action; F. N. B. 35, 38, 104, 108; peremptory nonsuit; Id. 5, 11; peremptory exception; Bract. lib. 4, c. 20; peremptory undertaking; 3 Chit. Pract. 112, 793; peremptory challenge of jurors, which is the right to challenge without assigning any cause. Inst. 4, 13, 9 Code, 7, 50, 2; Id. 8, 36, 8; Dig. 5, 1, 70 et 73.

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The burden of jury service will be more evenly distributed--one week for everyone--and more trials can take place if we get rid of all the wasteful preliminaries like elaborate jury questioning and peremptories.

Unlocking the jury box

The defense team of James Linn and Gerry Spence handled their peremptories the way Isaac Stern wields a violin bow.

The Jury: Disorder in the American Courts

44) Some commentators describe this idea as the "canceling out" hypothesis, which "suggests that the use of peremptories is not an important problem because both sides discriminate and any harm caused by one side is immediately canceled or offset by the reciprocal strikes of the other side.

Negotiating peremptory challenges

Peremptories, and attorney-conducted voir dire, greatly prolong the voir dire process, and hence the trial.

Court looks again at race and peremptory challenges

Although virtually unlimited in scope before Batson, within the last decade peremptories have been constrained by the Equal Protection Clause, and, as the dissenters in Annigoni emphasize, "[b]ecause the peremptory challenge has changed, our review of the trial court's scrutiny of its exercise must change, too.

Arbitrary rationality

Furthermore, a prohibition on "vague and subjective" rationales seems likely either to have no effect at all, or to reach too far and prevent core uses of peremptories (such as the removal of jurors who appear antagonized by voir dire questioning),(131) depending on how the trial judge interprets "subjective.

Just say no! A proposal to eliminate racially discriminatory uses of peremptory challenges

This was the moment for the Court to state explicitly how racially discriminatory peremptories actually damage the fairness of criminal trials.

Solving the Batson paradox: harmless error, jury representation, and the Sixth Amendment

A few of the Cassandra-like predictions include: "The decision today will not end the racial discrimination that peremptories inject into the jury-selection process.

Peremptory challenges as a shield for the pariah

That is what the peremptory challenge is for, and lawyers typically have no other basis for the exercise of their peremptories.

'I didn't like the way he looked.' (standard for racially neutral peremptory challenge)

placed one reasonable restriction upon the use of peremptories, while leaving unblemished a litigant's right to challenge jurors bearing characteristics of other heightened scrutiny classifications such as religious affiliation.

Fourteenth Amendment - equal protection: the Supreme Court's prohibition of gender-based peremptory challenges

potential jurors less the number of peremptories available to the other

A brief historical overview of the use of the mixed jury

directly indicate whether peremptories were exercised based on gender,

The numbers don't add up: challenging the premise of J.E.B. v. Alabama ex rel. T.B

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