Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries
Section 494.400 - Qualifications of jurors, selection, exclusions prohibited.

Effective - 28 Aug 2004
494.400. Qualifications of jurors, selection, exclusions prohibited. — All persons qualified for grand or petit jury service shall be citizens of the state and shall be selected at random from a fair cross section of the citizens of the county or of a city not within a county for which the jury may be impaneled, and all such citizens shall have the opportunity to be considered for jury service and an obligation to serve as jurors when summoned for that purpose, unless excused. A citizen of the county or of a city not within a county for which the jury may be impaneled shall not be excluded from selection for possible grand or petit jury service on account of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or economic status.
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(L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al., A.L. 2004 S.B. 1211)

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Structure Missouri Revised Statutes

Missouri Revised Statutes

Title XXXIV - Juries

Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries

Section 494.400 - Qualifications of jurors, selection, exclusions prohibited.

Section 494.405 - Board of jury commissioners, duties, quorum, meetings, members — circuit clerks, duties — supervisors, appointment, certain counties — jury supervisors, deputies, salaries, duties, oath.

Section 494.410 - Master jury list.

Section 494.415 - Qualified jury list — juror qualification form, contents — postponement of service.

Section 494.420 - Selection of jurors from qualified jury list.

Section 494.425 - Persons ineligible for jury service.

Section 494.430 - Persons entitled to be excused from jury service — determinations made by judge — undue or extreme physical or financial hardship defined — documentation required, when.