Definition of "empaneling" [empaneling]

• Present participle of empanel. (verb)

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• "In empaneling a special investigative grand jury to probe the city's child welfare agency, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes put part of Mayor Michael Bloomberg 's administration in prosecutors' cross hairs."
• "This demand sent startled city attorneys scurrying to their statute books to find a precedent for empaneling a jury to hear a municipal ordinance violation, normally disposed of with a hearing, a fine, and a stern word from the bench."
• "What its proposal, emailed to reporters a couple minutes ago, actually concerns is empaneling an investigation into abuses which may have been committed by U.S. officials or agents in connection with the U.S. response to the events of September 11, 2001, or in relation to alleged acts or threats against national security, and which at a minimum will investigate detentions, renditions and the alleged use of torture and other mistreatment of detainees."