Rule 47 Selecting Jurors
TITLE VI. TRIALS
Rule Text
(a) EXAMINING JURORS. The court may permit the parties or their attorneys to examine prospective jurors or may itself do so. If the court examines the jurors, it must permit the parties or their attorneys to make any further inquiry it considers proper, or must itself ask any of their additional questions it considers proper.
(b) PEREMPTORY CHALLENGES. The court must allow each party to exercise 3 peremptory challenges. Several defendants or several plaintiffs may be considered as a single party for the purposes of making challenges, or the court may allow additional peremptory challenges and permit them to be exercised separately or jointly. All challenges for cause or favor, whether to the array or panel or to individual jurors, must be determined by the court.
(c) EXCUSING A JUROR. During trial or deliberation, the court may excuse a juror for good cause.