Local Rule LR Civ P 47.01: Trial Juries

LR Civ P 47.01. Trial Juries.

(a) Examination of Prospective Jurors: The judicial officer shall conduct the examination of prospective jurors called to serve in civil actions. In conducting the examination, the judicial officer shall identify the parties and their respective counsel and briefly outline the nature of the action. The judicial officer shall interrogate the jurors to elicit whether they have any prior knowledge of the case and what connections they may have, if any, with the parties or their attorneys. Inquiries directed to the jurors shall embrace areas and matters designed to discover the basis for a challenge for cause, to gain knowledge enabling an intelligent exercise of peremptory challenges and to ascertain whether the jurors are qualified to serve in the case on trial. The judicial officer may consult with the attorneys, who may request or suggest other areas of juror interrogation. To the extent deemed proper, the judicial officer may then supplement or conclude his or her examination of the jurors.

(b) Proposed Juror Questionnaires: Parties must submit for the judicial officer's review and approval any proposed juror questionnaire at least sixty (60) days prior to the trial date.

(c) Jury Lists: Names of jurors drawn for jury service from the Court's qualified jury wheel may be disclosed only in accordance with the Court's Amended Jury Plan, approved and made effective February 27, 2009, and as it may be modified. Jury lists prepared by the Clerk of Court shall be made available to counsel and unrepresented parties as provided in the Amended Jury Plan.