A jury pool is a group of people from which a legal system may draw to fill a jury. In most places, a jury pool is made up of citizens of a particular jurisdiction who are considered legal adults. Typically, people who have been convicted of committing serious crimes are excluded from a jurisdiction's jury pool. For example, individuals who have committed felonies are usually restricted from serving on juries. Essentially, a jury pool is a population of people who are eligible to serve on jury.
a list of apparent registered voters in the jurisdiction, who will be called upon for jury duty after being screened.
They come from the regular jury pool.
The jury pool
A jury pool is a body of eligible jurors that can be tested by the attorneys for suitability for any particular trial.
Since 1968, the primary source for the jury pool has been
No, it is not. Jury is a group noun, a number of people. It is, however, used as a noun adjunct in terms such as jury duty and jury pool.
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In the US there is no requirement that you are tried by a jury of your peers. The only requirement in that regard is that the jury pool (from which the petit jury is selected) be drawn from a fair cross section of the community.
The jury pool is the group from which potential juror's names are taken and sent summons. Before and during voir dire, the potential jurors are often referred to as the jury pool again.
The jury determines questions of fact while the judge determines questions of law. The province of the jury is the pool of facts that they are deciding from exclusive of the law.
It means that any jury pool, assembled to try you will be drawn from all socio-economic classes of the general population.
If you reside in a state where the juror pool is drawn from the Motor Vehicle records this could be a factor in your being summoned for jury duty. However in a state where the juror pool is taken from the pool of registered voters this would not occur. If you are drawn form the DMV records you can advise the court of your citizenship status and you MIGHT be excused -OR- if you reach the jury selection phase one of the attorneys on the case may "challenge" you off the jury pool furing Voire Dire.
I was summoned fur jury duty in a federal case by mail. I had to go to the Federal Courthouse Building, where the jury pool was interviewed. I was selected for the jury, and was also selected as the jury foreperson. It was a federal drug case in which the defendant was found guilty.