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Rule 33. Jurors: Impanelment, Assignments, Excuses, Attorneys Prohibited from Requesting Excuse...

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Oklahoma Statutes Annotated
Local District Court Rules
Rules of the Seventh and Twenty-Sixth Administrative Districts [Oklahoma and Canadian Counties]
Okl.St.Ann. Rule 33
Rule 33. Jurors: Impanelment, Assignments, Excuses, Attorneys Prohibited from Requesting Excuses for Jurors
A. The Chief Judge shall be responsible for impaneling jurors in the jury assembly room or elsewhere each day that juries are to be selected.
B. All applications for excuses from jury service shall be made to the Chief Judge.
C. The Chief Judge shall be responsible for hearing and deciding requests to be excused from those summoned to serve as jurors in the jury assembly room at 3:00 o'clock p.m. on the Friday preceding the Monday on which jury service is due to commence.
D. No application for excuse from jury service shall be made by an attorney on behalf of another person.
E. A list of the names of qualified jurors shall be kept by the Court Clerk and by the Chief Judge.
F. Upon request by a judge for a jury, jurors' names are randomly selected using the Court Clerk's computerized, electronic or mechanical process, and a list of names shall be prepared. The Jury Clerk shall send the list of names, the slips with the names of those drawn and the jurors to the courtroom of the requesting Judge.
G. When all the jurors sent are present in the courtroom of the requesting Judge, the slips of paper with their names shall be placed in the individual courtroom jury drawing box, to be shaken up and names drawn as directed by the judge.
H. All jurors shall report to the jury assembly room by 8:00 o'clock a.m. on Monday of the beginning of each jury week. On all other days, jurors shall report by 9:00 o'clock a.m. or as otherwise directed by the judge before whom the jurors are appearing, and shall remain in attendance until otherwise excused or directed by the Chief Judge or the judge before whom they are serving as jurors in a specific case

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[Adopted effective May 1, 2000. Amended effective April 1, 2010.]
Okl. St. Ann. Rule 33, OK ST T. Rule 33
Current with emergency effective legislation through Chapter 257 of the Second Regular Session of the 59th Legislature (2024). Some sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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