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Chapter 30 - General Provisions
§ 16-30-101. Multijudge and divided circuits - (a) In multijudge circuits, the circuit judges may select one...
§ 16-30-102. Alternate jurors - (a) When in the discretion of the court it shall...
§ 16-30-103. Oaths - (a) The following oath, in substance, shall be administered to...
§ 16-30-104. Contractual waiver of jury trial - A written provision in a contract to borrow money or...
Chapter 31 - Juror Qualifications and Exemptions
§ 16-31-101. Qualifications - Every registered voter or, in counties where an enhanced prospective...
§ 16-31-102. Disqualifications - (a) The following persons are disqualified to act as grand...
§ 16-31-103. Exemptions from service - Any person may be excused from serving as a grand...
§ 16-31-104. Limitations on frequency and period of service - (a) Any person who is sworn as a member of...
§ 16-31-105. Exemption from overtime parking penalties - (a) No person shall be subject to a fine or...
§ 16-31-106. Penalty for employees' service prohibited - (a) (1) Any person who is summoned to serve on...
§ 16-31-107. Effect of unqualified juror upon verdict or indictment - No verdict or indictment shall be void or voidable because...
§ 16-31-108. Interpreters for visually or hearing impaired jurors - (a) (1) (A) The state, through the Administrative Office of...
Chapter 32 - Selection and Attendance
Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 16-32-101. Selection pursuant to act required — Waiver - No person shall be summoned to serve as a grand...
§ 16-32-103. Master list - (a) During the month of November or December of each...
§ 16-32-104. Jury wheel or box - (a) (1) The names and last known addresses of the...
§ 16-32-105. Drawing for petit jurors - (a) (1) After the names have been placed in the...
§ 16-32-106. Summons of petit jurors - (a) The persons whose names have been selected under §...
§ 16-32-107. Excess number of jurors drawn and listed - (a) Whenever it shall appear that the names of more...
§ 16-32-108. Additional jurors - (a) (1) If at any time it appears that a...
§ 16-32-109. Selection upon challenge by litigant - (a) (1) A challenge to the use of the names...
§ 16-32-110. Electronic random selection - Beginning January 1, 1998, and thereafter, during every step in...
§ 16-32-111. Confidentiality of juror information — Definition - (a) As used in this section, “juror information” means: (1)...
Subchapter 2 - Criminal Proceedings
§ 16-32-201. Selection of grand jury - (a) (1) The selecting, summoning, and impaneling of a grand...
§ 16-32-202. Selection, summons, and composition of trial generally - (a) The jurors for the trial of criminal prosecutions shall...
§ 16-32-203. Selection for misdemeanor trial - The jury, for the trial of all prosecutions for misdemeanors,...
Subchapter 3 - Enhanced Prospective Juror Pool
§ 16-32-301. Enhanced prospective juror pool - (a) The pool of names from which prospective jurors are...
§ 16-32-302. Enhanced list of prospective jurors - (a) (1) In order to allow for the use of...
§ 16-32-303. Judicial determination of need for expanded list - (a) The administrative circuit judge for each county shall determine...
§ 16-32-304. List of disqualifications not affected - This subchapter shall not affect the list of disqualifications from...
Chapter 33 - Examination and Challenge
§ 16-33-101. Examination of prospective jurors - (a) In all cases, both civil and criminal, the court...
Subchapter 2 - Civil Proceedings
§ 16-33-201. Challenge to the array - A challenge to the array shall be decided by the...
§ 16-33-202. Challenge for cause - (a) A challenge for cause shall be decided by the...
§ 16-33-203. Peremptory challenges — Panel - (a) Each party shall have three (3) peremptory challenges, which...
Subchapter 3 - Criminal Proceedings
§ 16-33-301. Challenge to grand juror - (a) Every person held to answer a criminal charge may...
§ 16-33-302. Challenge to trial jurors generally - A challenge is an objection to the trial jurors and...
§ 16-33-303. Challenge to trial jurors — Individual juror generally - (a) The challenge to the individual juror is: (1) For...
§ 16-33-304. Challenge to trial jurors — Individual juror for cause - (a) The challenge for cause may be taken either by...
§ 16-33-305. Challenge to trial jurors — Individual juror — Peremptory - (a) The state shall be entitled to ten (10) peremptory...
§ 16-33-306. Challenge to trial jurors — Order - The challenges of either party need not be all taken...
§ 16-33-307. Challenge to trial jurors — Several defendants - When several defendants are tried together, the challenge of any...
§ 16-33-308. Challenge to trial jurors — Hearing - (a) Challenges shall be tried and determined by the court...
Chapter 34 - Fees and Expenses
§ 16-34-103. Per diem compensation for jurors and prospective jurors - (a) Any person who receives official notice that he or...
§ 16-34-104. Mileage reimbursement for jurors - In the event and to the extent that a county...
§ 16-34-106. Payment by county — Reimbursement by state - (a) The per diem compensation under § 16-34-103 shall be...