Rule 4 Master Juror List

(a) The superior court clerk shall send a “Questionnaire as to Qualification for Jury Service” and a questionnaire for supplemental information, prepared and furnished by the court administrator, to each person randomly selected from the master juror list or to persons randomly selected for service on a particular pool or panel. The superior court clerk shall send a sufficient number of questionnaires to provide qualified persons to serve on a jury panel. The qualification questionnaire shall include a statement describing which responses are considered public and a statement that the court will not be contacting the potential juror to ask for the person’s social security number, credit card number, or mother’s maiden name. With the approval of the court administrator, the superior court clerk may include with the questionnaire a summons directing the juror to serve on a jury panel of the superior court at such time and place as the presiding judge directs.

(b) Upon return and receipt of the questionnaire, the superior court clerk shall indicate thereon whether the person is qualified for jury duty.

(c) All information provided in a potential juror’s written responses to questionnaires related to jury service, requested pursuant to applicable rules, other than a juror’s name and town of residence, is excepted from public access, absent a finding of good cause for disclosure by the court. In assessing good cause, the court must weigh the public interest in the release of the information sought against any harm as a result of disclosure.

(d) The court shall keep for a period of two years a record of the reason for disqualification of any potential juror.

(e) Whenever there is a possibility that the master juror list may be exhausted before the end of the year, the superior court clerk shall request the court administrator to randomly select people from the potential juror list and add them to the unit’s master juror list.