Jury (Earth-616)

Jury
Name	The Jury
Aliases	Equity Inc.
Members
Current Member(s)	Bomblast, Firearm, Ramshot, Sentry (Curtis Elkins), Wysper
Former Member(s)	USAgent, Orwell Taylor, Screech
Affiliation and Identity
Identity	Secret
Allies	Gavel, Olivia Lentz, Thunderbolts
Enemies	Venom (Eddie Brock)
Origin and Status
Origin	Orwell Taylor formed the Jury to avenge the death of his son.
Status	Active
Reality	Earth-616
Base of Operations	Mobile
Place of Formation	San Francisco
Creators and Appearances
Creators	David Michelinie, Mark Bagley
First	Venom Lethal Protector Vol 1 2
First	Venom Lethal Protector Vol 1 2

History

During a Vault breakout, Orwell Taylor's son Hugh was killed by Venom. The Vault itself was heavily damaged by the U-Foes several years later

Taylor and his other son Max decided to seek revenge. A number of other disgruntled Guardsmen joined them as the Jury. They sought to 'try' villains, starting with Venom (Eddie Brock) but he escaped due to the intervention of Roland Treece. Later the Jury kidnapped Spider-Man and tried him for bringing the Venom symbiote to earth. Again the Jury was defeated.

Later Orwell began to work with the Life Foundation and the Jury became more or less flunkies.

After parting ways with Orwell his eldest son Max aka Screech reformed the Jury and tried to make it more representative of an American court of law. Max chose to give up his Screech costume and become the Jury's defense attorney. A mysterious man known as Gavel was the judge for the Jury's trials. Olivia Lentz a mysterious woman with a history in dealing with symbiotes was the prosecutor. To replace Screech the team recruited former Guardsman Jenny Stewart whose husband was murdered by the second Tarantula during a prison riot. Jenny was given the codename Wysper. She killed Tarantula in a death match and was officially made a member.

Sometime later the Jury lost their support staff and funding. They were later hired by industrialist Edwin Cord a recurring enemy of Iron Man's. USAgent was hired to be the team's field leader.

After learning that Abner Jenkins had been arrested, Cord decided to apprehend the Thunderbolts. They were unsuccessful. The Jury was later prohibited from attacking Graviton after his destruction of the Redeemers. The Jury and the Thunderbolts reluctantly ended up working together to defeat the Secret Empire.

Paraphernalia

Equipment

The Jury wear specially modified version of the Guardsman Armor, with each member having a specific weapon or function.

Weapons

Members

Santiago (Earth-616)

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Ms. Santiago

Ms. Santiago controlled the watch units installed all over the city to track Spider-Man down.

Transportation

Justifier.

Trivia

In Thunderbolts #23 we see the line up of the Jury as Sentry, Bomblast, Firearm, Ramshot and Wysper with Screech no longer on the team. But when we see them unmasked Firearm, who is black is depicted as looking as blonde and white like Maxwell Taylor aka Screech. Presumably this is an art error rather than an indication that Maxwell Taylor is now Firearm.

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See Also

• 22 appearance(s) of Jury (Earth-616)
• 4 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Jury (Earth-616)
• 3 mention(s) of Jury (Earth-616)
• 2 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Jury (Earth-616)
• 3 image(s) of Jury (Earth-616)
• 12 member(s) of Jury (Earth-616)
• 1 item(s) used/owned by Jury (Earth-616)

Links and References

• Venom: Lethal Protector #1-3
• Amazing Spider-Man #382-385
• Spider-Man: Arachnis Project #1-6
• Venom: Sinner Takes All #1-4
• Venom: The Hunted #1-3
• Thunderbolts #23, 28, 32