Embracery is the illegal attempt to improperly influence a jury, often through bribery or threats.
Embracery is the illegal act of attempting to influence a jury, often through bribery or threats.
| Front | embracery \em-BRAY-suh-ree\ also imbracery |
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| Back | noun An attempt to influence a jury illegally as by bribery, threats, or promises. One guilty of embracery is known as an embraceor. [From Middle English embracerie, ultimately from em- + brace (the two arms).] "A Columbia County man pleaded guilty Thursday to a charge of embracery, an illegal attempt to influence a juror, in his drunken-driving trial." - Mayor's Bucks Back Skyfest; Augusta Chronicle (Georgia); Sep 27, 2002. "Further, every night the non-sequestered civil jury went home where they were exposed to the local and nationally syndicated radio and television talk shows and also the Los Angeles Times... is a form of embracery, the act of attempting to influence a juror or jury in its most high-tech form." - Dennis Schatzman; Race, Media, American Law and O.J. Simpson; Sentinel (Los Angeles, California); Apr 30, 1997. |
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