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Demand For Trial By Jury In California
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Jury Service is mandatory and prospective jurors' names are obtained from voter registration, DMV records, and the franchise tax board. Service may be required as often as once per year and can be from one day to the length of one trial, starting at a.m. and ending at p.m. Business casual attire is suggested.
You would probably get removed from the jury. Usually there are multiple rounds of jury selection. If you get randomly selected to be on the jury, the lawyers and judge will get to ask you questions. If you are asleep, you'll probably get kicked off.
Some common excuses that California allows include: Lack of transportation to and from the courthouse; You would have to travel an excessive distance to get to the courthouse; You have a mental or physical limitation or disability;
The process of questioning and excusing jurors continues until 12 persons are accepted as jurors for the trial. Alternate jurors may also be selected. The judge and attorneys agree that these jurors are qualified to decide impartially and intelligently the factual issues in the case.
You must be able to read and understand English. If convicted of a felony, you can no longer be on parole, post release community supervision, felony probation or mandated supervision. You cannot have been convicted of a malfeasance in office, or if convicted, your civil rights have to have been restored.
The judge and attorneys ask the potential jurors questions, general or related to the specific case before them, to determine their suitability to serve on the jury. This process is called voir dire, which typically results in some prospective jurors being excused, based on their answers, from serving in that trial.
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.
Once you have been directed to a courtroom, the clerk will call twelve to eighteen names from a random list, and these people will take seats in the jury box. The remaining prospective jurors will remain seated in the courtroom.
All requests to be excused from jury service that are granted for undue hardship must be put in writing by the prospective juror, reduced to writing, or placed on the court's record.
