Sections
51 entriesSection 190Defines the chapter by the official name Trial Jury Selection and Management Act and allows that name to be used when citing…Section 191Establishes California policy that jury service is a civic obligation, jurors are selected randomly from the court’s service-area population, and all qualified…Section 192Defines the scope of this chapter to cover juror selection and formation of trial juries in both civil and criminal cases in…Section 193Defines three kinds of juries: grand juries established under the referenced Penal Code provisions, trial juries, and juries of inquest. The provision…Section 194Defines jury-management terms governing the chapter, including county, court, deferred juror, excused juror, juror pool, jury of inquest, master list, potential and…Section 195Requires each county to have one jury commissioner appointed by and serving at the pleasure of a majority of superior court judges,…Section 196Requires the jury commissioner or court to inquire into prospective jurors’ qualifications and permits sworn oral or written questioning, with others allowed…Section 197Requires jurors to be selected randomly from sources representing the population served by the court and recognizes voter, DMV, and resident state-tax-filer…Section 198Requires random selection throughout creation of master and qualified juror lists and selection of prospective jurors for voir dire. Requires the jury…Section 198.5Allows local selection of master and qualified jury lists from the area where a superior court session is held outside the county…Section 201Allows a superior court to draw, summon, and impanel a separate trial jury panel for each judge or a shared panel for…Section 202Allows mechanical, electric, or electronic equipment to perform any juror-selection or drawing function specified by this chapter when the jury commissioner considers…Section 203Defines eligibility for prospective trial jury service by excluding noncitizens, persons under 18, nondomiciliaries or nonresidents of the jurisdiction, certain persons with…Section 204Prohibits exempting an eligible person from trial-jury service because of occupation, economic status, a characteristic listed or defined in the referenced Government…Section 205Limits a jury-commissioner questionnaire to juror identification, qualification, and ability to serve and generally restricts its use to qualification and jury-system management.…Section 206Allows criminal-case parties or representatives to discuss deliberations or verdicts with a discharged juror only with the juror’s consent at a reasonable…Section 207Requires the jury commissioner to keep records of prospective-juror selection, qualification, assignment, attendance, fees, and mileage, including a clear audit trail. Allows…Section 208Requires the jury commissioner to estimate juror needs and summon prospective jurors by first-class mail, personal service, or authorized urgency procedures. A…Section 209Allows courts to compel attendance and sanction unexcused prospective jurors who fail to respond or appear, after notice and opportunity to be…Section 210Requires a jury summons to state the required date, time, and place of appearance or instead provide instructions for calling the jury…Section 210.5Requires the Judicial Council to adopt a standardized, understandable jury summons with consumer appeal and a specific reference to rules for breastfeeding…Section 211Allows a court that has no prospective jurors available for voir dire to direct the sheriff or marshal to summon, serve, and…Section 213Allows the jury commissioner to place summoned prospective jurors on one-hour telephone notice when that arrangement efficiently serves court operations, unless they…Section 214Requires the jury commissioner to provide orientation to new jurors that includes necessary basic information about jury service. The commissioner must also…Section 215Sets superior court juror compensation at $15 per day after the first day and mileage reimbursement at $0.34 per mile after the…Section 216Requires each court facility hearing jury cases to provide jurors with deliberation rooms designed to minimize unwarranted intrusion and equipped with suitable…Section 217Allows a court in a criminal case to direct the sheriff or marshal to provide suitable food, lodging, or other reasonable necessities…Section 218Requires the jury commissioner to hear summoned jurors’ excuse requests under Judicial Council standards and requires every excuse to be written, state…Section 219Requires the jury commissioner generally to randomly select jurors for panels sent to courtrooms for voir dire. Bars specified peace officers from…Section 219.5Requires the Judicial Council, by January 1, 2005, to adopt a court rule requiring trial courts to establish jury-service procedures that provide…Section 220Sets a trial jury at 12 persons, but allows parties in civil actions and misdemeanor cases to agree to a jury of…Section 222Requires the clerk, when a jury trial is called, to randomly select juror names for voir dire until the jury is chosen…Section 222.5Requires civil trial judges to conduct initial voir dire and permit counsel reasonable, liberal, probing oral questioning to discover juror bias, without…Section 223Requires criminal trial judges to conduct initial voir dire and permit counsel reasonable, liberal, probing questioning directed to bias and challenges for…Section 224Requires parties who do not challenge a juror with specified communication disabilities to stipulate to a needed service provider's presence during deliberations…Section 225Defines permissible juror challenges as a challenge to the panel for cause, a challenge to an individual juror for general disqualification, implied…Section 226Requires challenges to individual jurors to be made before the jury is sworn and requires all cause challenges before any peremptory challenges.…Section 227Allows challenges for cause to be taken separately rather than all at once, but requires them to follow the stated order by…Section 228Limits challenges for general juror disqualification to two grounds: lacking a qualification required by the code for juror competence, or having an…Section 229Limits implied-bias challenges to the listed grounds, including close relationships with parties or witnesses, specified legal or financial relationships, prior related jury…Section 230Requires challenges for cause to be tried by the court and requires the challenged juror and any other person examined as a…Section 231Sets peremptory challenges at 20 per side in death or life-imprisonment criminal cases, generally 10 per side for other crimes, and six…Section 231.5Prohibits a party from using a peremptory challenge to remove a prospective juror based merely on an assumption that the juror is…Section 231.7Prohibits peremptory challenges based on a prospective juror's race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, religious affiliation, or perceived membership…Section 232Requires prospective jurors, before voir dire examination, to acknowledge under penalty of perjury that they will truthfully answer questions about qualifications and…Section 233Allows a court to discharge a juror who becomes sick or otherwise unable to serve before verdict and requires an available alternate…Section 234Allows a superior court in a likely protracted trial, or on party stipulation, to seat one or more alternate jurors who meet…Section 235Requires the jury commissioner, at the request of a sheriff, coroner, or other ministerial officer, to provide prospective jurors needed to form…Section 236Requires six or more prospective jurors of inquest who attend to be sworn by the coroner to determine the deceased person’s identity,…Section 237Requires qualified-juror names to be public on request unless a compelling interest justifies confidentiality, while sealing criminal-verdict juror names, addresses, and phone…Section 242Requires courts in violent-felony criminal proceedings to provide jurors specified mental-health and trauma information after a verdict, or after a no-verdict conclusion…