This is a Complaint pleading for use in litigation of the title matter. Adapt this form to comply with your facts and circumstances, and with your specific state law. Not recommended for use by non-attorneys.
This is a Complaint pleading for use in litigation of the title matter. Adapt this form to comply with your facts and circumstances, and with your specific state law. Not recommended for use by non-attorneys.
When writing a jury excuse letter, directly state why you cannot serve and how serving would lead to hardship. Valid exemptions include being ill or disabled, being the sole guardian of young children, or being over the age of 70. Include documentation such as a doctor's note or a letter from an employer.
What can I do? Call 214-670-0109 and ask to start a service request. A clerk from the jury department will contact you back. The clerk will look up the date you are to appear and provide that information to you.
By law, the courts will excuse from jury duty anyone with a mental or physical condition that would keep them from serving as a juror. There is not an exemption based on age, but you may request to be excused if you have a hardship that would make it difficult to serve.
Your nine (9) digit juror participant number is located on your jury summons above Step 1. If you have lost your paperwork, please call the jury office to obtain a new summons and your juror participant number.
A request to be excused must be made in writing to the court that issued the summons and must be supported by appropriate documentation. Requests for excuse should be directed to the Jury Commissioner's Office. Your service is required as a prospective juror for a minimum of one day.
Pursuant to K.S.A. 43-165, any person who is duly summoned to appear as a juror and who fails to appear without a sufficient excuse shall be subject to a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100) per day for each unexcused absence.
Your 9-digit juror participant number is located above Step 1 on your jury summons. If you do not have your summons, please contact jury staff at the location you have been summoned for.
As prospective jurors are needed for specific trials or grand juries, jury pools are randomly selected from the list of qualified participants. Panels of prospective jurors are then randomly selected for each jury trial.
In the United States, criminal defendants who face serious felony charges are almost always afforded the right to a trial by a 12-member jury. A few states, however, allow these trials to proceed before six-member juries, even when a defendant faces a mandatory life sentence.
For jury instructions to be effective, they must be clear and simple. Sentences should be short; instruc- • tions should contain no more than a few sentences, cover only one topic, and be directly related to the circumstances of the case (they should not be abstract statements of the law).