It is called a PEREMPTORY CHALLENGE and is exercised during the Voir Dire portion of jury selection.
Peremptory challenge.
Attorneys will ask prospective jurors various questions to determine if they will be a good fit for the jury. Prospective jurors can be dismissed if the attorney feels they are biased.
Both parties choose the jury. In many cases prospective jurors will be asked to answer a series of questions. Both sides can then interview jurors and each gets to reject or accept them.
According to the Juries Act (2007), $712 are available at the start of each day to be split between jurors and reserve jurors/etc at the Sheriffs discretion. Jurors must submit a Juror Allowance Claim Form to collect a share, but the share may be less than $712/number of submitted claims. For each day of trial, I'd expect somewhere far short of the $50 mark, and for each day of deliberations somewhere slightly shorter of the $60 mark.
The bailiff will take attendance of the jurors.
We are fresh out of qualified jurors in this county.
In most cases, defendants do not receive the addresses of jurors. This is to protect the privacy and safety of jurors and their families. The court typically provides limited information about jurors to both parties involved in the trial.
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Grand jurors are called from a cross section of the public.Added; From the same pool of potential jurors that is used to call all citizens for jury service.
Jurors do not sentence. The jurors give their finding of guilt or innocence. Then, court usually adjourns and weeks or months later, the Judge issues a sentence.
There were six English-speaking jurors and six French-speaking jurors in the Louis Riel trial. They were selected from the population of the Northwest Territories.
The collective noun is a damning of jurors (the term dates from the Middle Ages).