Juror
Information:
Citizens are selected to serve on a jury from a combined list of
Wayne County registered voters and licensed drivers. A questionnaire is mailed
to each member of the potential jury pool in January. Citizens who receive this questionnaire are required under
penalty of law to answer the questions and return the form to the District
Court within 10 days. Please note that
our jury questionnaire will never ask for your social security number or bank
account information. If you receive something that appears to be from the court
that requests that private information, please contact your local police
department immediately.
Each questionnaire
will be evaluated and those who meet the established criterion will then be put
into our jury pool for the year. When a
jury trial is set, an impartial, random selection from this jury pool is performed
as required by law. Some people are chosen several times during their lifetime,
others are never chosen. If you are a registered
voter or licensed driver, you have the same chance of being chosen as someone
else who meets those criterion.
To qualify as a juror
you must:
- Be a United States citizen
- Be 19 years of age or older
- Be physically and mentally
capable
- Be able to read, speak and
understand the English language
You may be disqualified from serving on a jury for the following
reasons:
- If you have been convicted of a
crime punishable by imprisonment in an adult correctional facility when
the conviction has not been set aside or a pardon issued
- If you are a judge, clerk of a
district court, a sheriff, or a jailer
- If your spouse has been
summoned for the same jury panel
- If you or your spouse is a
party to a lawsuit pending for trial to the jury panel for which you are
summoned
- If within the past five years
you have served as a petit juror for more than four weeks, served on more than
one grand jury, or served on both a grand jury and a petit jury.
- Individuals who are 65 years or
older can request not to serve, but they must do so at the time their juror
questionnaire is returned.
You may be found in contempt of court if you fail to
respond to a jury summons without good cause, if you fail to answer the
qualification form, or if you misrepresent anything on the form.
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