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1. Reno also is likely to reject the King family's request that she empanel a national truth and reconciliation commission that would have the authority to grant immunity in return for testimony, The Associated Press said, citing unnamed Justice Department officials.
2. Soon afterward, federal authorities were forced to transfer the case to the United States District Court for the Central District of California; so many of Guam's residents had been defrauded that it would have been impossible to empanel a jury.
3. SHERIFF-GRANDJURIES _ DECATUR, Ga . _ DeKalb judges will empanel two special grand juries : one to look at the murder of Derwin Brown; another to probe operations at the county jail . ( Plummer, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
4. Much would depend on who, at the time the house ended, held the status of founder or patron; and, as with other such disputes in real property, the standard procedure was to empanel a jury to decide between disputing claimants.
5. "That indicates that they are obviously taking this very seriously and are not going to rubber stamp the desire of the state to empanel a grand jury, " said attorney Brian Steel, who represents Dorsey along with defense lawyer Dwight Thomas.
6. Harvey's " escapade " prompted the U . S . attorney for Illinois to empanel a grand jury to consider an espionage indictment; Harvey " went on the air to suggest he was being set up "; the grand jury subsequently declined to indict Harvey.
7. Many analysts believe that prosecutors would relish scrapping this jury and starting over, partly so they could attempt to empanel a jury more to their liking and partly so they could restructure their presentation in light of what they've now learned about the defense's strategy.
8. In the McDougal case, Starr did file a dismissal motion with Judge George Howard Jr . of U . S . District Court in Little Rock, Ark ., telling the court it would be very difficult to empanel a new jury whose views were not contaminated by extensive publicity.
9. About a month ago, Thomas J . Spota, the Suffolk County district attorney, said he would empanel such a grand jury, saying he was " not at all satisfied with the credibility of public assertions of the church that it is properly policing its clergy ."
10. Clinton, however, gave no indication that he would empanel a commission, as Mrs . King has sought, modeled after the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which is reviewing apartheid-era human rights abuses in exchange for immunity for perpetrators who come forward to tell their stories.