California CodesCode of Civil Procedure - CCPPart 1 — Of Courts of JusticeTitle 3 — Persons Specially Invested with Powers of a Judicial NatureChapter 1 — Trial Jury Selection and Management ActSection 226
(a) A challenge to an individual juror may only be made before the jury is sworn.
(b) A challenge to an individual juror may be taken orally or may be made in writing, but no reason need be given for a peremptory challenge, and the court shall exclude any juror challenged peremptorily.
(c) All challenges for cause shall be exercised before any peremptory challenges may be exercised.
(d) All challenges to an individual juror, except a peremptory challenge, shall be taken, first by the defendants, and then by the people or plaintiffs.
Notes
Requires challenges to individual jurors to be made before the jury is sworn and requires all cause challenges before any peremptory challenges. Allows oral or written individual challenges, requires no reason for a peremptory challenge, mandates exclusion of a peremptorily challenged juror, and sets defendants to exercise nonperemptory challenges before the people or plaintiffs.
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