Local Rule Rule 83.5: SECRECY OF JURY DELIBERATIONS AND GRAND JURY PROCEEDINGS
D. Conn. — Civil rule
Rule 83.5 SECRECY OF JURY DELIBERATIONS AND GRAND JURY PROCEEDINGS (Amended December 22, 2017)
1. Trial Jurors
(a) No person, other than the Court or Court personnel, shall contact or communicate with, directly or indirectly, a juror, potential juror or excused juror, or any relative, friend or associate of any such juror, during jury selection or trial, concerning the subject matter of the trial or the juror's participation in the trial, except with the permission of and under the supervision of the Court.
(b) Jurors have no obligation to speak to any person about any case and may refuse all interviews or requests to discuss the case. Jurors may only speak or write about their own participation in the trial. Jurors may not discuss the deliberations of the jury, votes of the jury, or the actions or comments of any other juror. However, jurors shall report to the Court any extraneous prejudicial information improperly brought to the jury's attention, any outside influence improperly brought to bear upon any juror, or whether the verdict reported was the result of a clerical mistake.
(c) Unless explicitly authorized by the Court, no party, and no attorney or person acting on behalf of a party or attorney, shall question a juror concerning the deliberations of the jury, votes of the jury or the actions or comments of any other juror.
(d) No person may contact, communicate with or interview any juror in any manner which subjects the juror to harassment, misrepresentation, duress or coercion.
2. Juror Information The Clerk shall make available to counsel and self-represented parties participating in jury selection the responses to juror questionnaires of those prospective jurors participating in jury selection. Upon request of counsel or a self-represented party, the Court may order the Clerk to make available to counsel and a self-represented party participating in jury selection the list of potential jurors summoned for the case. Other individuals may request such information in accordance with the District's Jury Plan.
3. Grand Jurors No person, other than those authorized under Fed.R.Crim.P. 6 or Court personnel, shall contact or communicate with, directly or indirectly, a grand juror, potential grand juror, or excused grand juror at any time concerning the subject matter of the grand jury proceedings or the juror's participation in the grand jury proceedings. Grand jurors shall also comply with Fed. R. Crim P. 6.
4. Violations A violation of this rule may be treated as a contempt of Court. The Court shall have continuing supervision over communications with jurors, even after a trial has been completed.