California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Sections 190-237
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 190
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Trial Jury Selection and Management Act. ...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 191
The Legislature recognizes that trial by jury is a cherished constitutional right, and that jury service is an obligation of citizenship. It is the policy...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 192
This chapter applies to the selection of jurors, and the formation of trial juries, for both civil and criminal cases, in all trial courts of...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 193
Juries are of three kinds: (a) Grand juries established pursuant to Title 4 (commencing with Section 888) of Part 2 of the Penal Code. (b)...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 194
The following definitions govern the construction of this chapter: (a) "County" means any county or any coterminous city and county. (b) "Court" means a superior...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 195
(a) In each county, there shall be one jury commissioner who shall be appointed by, and serve at the pleasure of, a majority of the...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 196
(a) The jury commissioner or the court shall inquire as to the qualifications of persons on the master list or source list who are or...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 197
(a) All persons selected for jury service shall be selected at random, from a source or sources inclusive of a representative cross section of the...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 198
(a) Random selection shall be utilized in creating master and qualified juror lists, commencing with selection from source lists, and continuing through selection of prospective...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 198.5
If sessions of the superior court are held in a location other than the county seat, the names for master jury lists and qualified jury...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 201
In any superior court, a separate trial jury panel may be drawn, summoned, and impaneled for each judge, or any one panel may be drawn,...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 202
Mechanical, electric, or electronic equipment, which in the opinion of the jury commissioner is satisfactory therefor, may be used in the performance of any function...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 203
(a) All persons are eligible and qualified to be prospective trial jurors, except the following: (1) Persons who are not citizens of the United States....
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 204
(a) No eligible person shall be exempt from service as a trial juror by reason of occupation, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, economic status,...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 205
(a) If a jury commissioner requires a person to complete a questionnaire, the questionnaire shall ask only questions related to juror identification, qualification, and ability...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 206
(a) Prior to discharging the jury from the case, the judge in a criminal action shall inform the jurors that they have an absolute right...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 207
(a) The jury commissioner shall maintain records regarding selection, qualification, and assignment of prospective jurors. (b) The jury commissioner shall maintain records providing a clear...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 208
The jury commissioner shall estimate the number of prospective jurors that may be required to serve the needs of the court, and shall summon prospective...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 209
(a) Any prospective trial juror who has been summoned for service, and who fails to attend as directed or to respond to the court or...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 209
Any prospective trial juror who has been summoned for service, and who fails to attend the court as directed or to respond to the court...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 210
The summons shall contain the date, time, and place of appearance required of the prospective juror or, alternatively, instructions as to the procedure for calling...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 210.5
The Judicial Council shall adopt a standardized jury summons for use, with appropriate modifications, around the state, that is understandable and has consumer appeal. The...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 211
When a court has no prospective jurors remaining available for voir dire from panels furnished by, or available from, the jury commissioner, and finds that...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 213
Unless excused by reason of undue hardship, all or any portion of the summoned prospective jurors shall be available on one-hour notice by telephone to...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 214
The jury commissioner shall provide orientation for new jurors, which shall include necessary basic information concerning jury service. The jury commissioner shall notify each juror...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 215
(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), on and after July 1, 2000, the fee for jurors in the superior court, in civil and criminal...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 216
(a) At each court facility where jury cases are heard, the board of supervisors shall provide a deliberation room or rooms for use of jurors...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 217
In criminal cases only, while the jury is kept together, either during the progress of the trial or after their retirement for deliberation, the court...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 218
The jury commissioner shall hear the excuses of jurors summoned, in accordance with the standards prescribed by the Judicial Council. It shall be left to...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 219
(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the jury commissioner shall randomly select jurors for jury panels to be sent to courtrooms for voir dire....
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 219.5
The Judicial Council shall adopt a rule of court, on or before January 1, 2005, requiring the trial courts to establish procedures for jury service...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 220
A trial jury shall consist of 12 persons, except that in civil actions and cases of misdemeanor, it may consist of 12 or any number...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 222
(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), when an action is called for trial by jury, the clerk, or the judge where there is no...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 222.5
To select a fair and impartial jury in civil jury trials, the trial judge shall examine the prospective jurors. Upon completion of the judge's initial...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 223
In a criminal case, the court shall conduct an initial examination of prospective jurors. The court may submit to the prospective jurors additional questions requested...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 224
(a) If a party does not cause the removal by challenge of an individual juror who is deaf, hearing impaired, blind, visually impaired, or speech...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 225
A challenge is an objection made to the trial jurors that may be taken by any party to the action, and is of the following...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 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...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 227
The challenges of either party for cause need not all be taken at once, but they may be taken separately, in the following order, including...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 228
Challenges for general disqualification may be taken on one or both of the following grounds, and for no other: (a) A want of any of...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 229
A challenge for implied bias may be taken for one or more of the following causes, and for no other: (a) Consanguinity or affinity within...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 230
Challenges for cause shall be tried by the court. The juror challenged and any other person may be examined as a witness in the trial...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 231
(a) In criminal cases, if the offense charged is punishable with death, or with imprisonment in the state prison for life, the defendant is entitled...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 231.5
A party may not use a peremptory challenge to remove a prospective juror on the basis of an assumption that the prospective juror is biased...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 232
(a) Prior to the examination of prospective trial jurors in the panel assigned for voir dire, the following perjury acknowledgement and agreement shall be obtained...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 233
If, before the jury has returned its verdict to the court, a juror becomes sick or, upon other good cause shown to the court, is...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 234
Whenever, in the opinion of a judge of a superior court about to try a civil or criminal action or proceeding, the trial is likely...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 235
At the request of the sheriff, coroner, or other ministerial officer, the jury commissioner shall provide such prospective jurors as may be required to form...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 236
When six or more prospective jurors of inquest attend, they shall be sworn by the coroner to inquire who the person was, and when, where,...
- California Laws: Code of Civil Procedure Section 237
(a) (1) The names of qualified jurors drawn from the qualified juror list for the superior court shall be made available to the public upon...
