Connecticut · statute · Conn. Gen. Stat. ch. 884 · 39 active provisions
(a) All jurors shall be electors, individuals lawfully admitted for permanent residence, as defined in 8 USC 1101(a)(20), as amended from time to time, or citizens of the United States, who are residents of this state having a permanent place of abode in this state and appear on the list compiled by the Jury Administra…
(a) A person shall be excused from jury service during the jury year commencing September 1, 1999, and each jury year thereafter, if during the next three preceding jury years such person appeared in a court for jury service and was not excused from such jury service, except that such person may request to be summoned…
(a) The Judicial Branch shall maintain on its Internet web site a section providing prospective jurors with general information regarding jury service, including, but not limited to, information for breastfeeding women regarding their ability to postpone jury service. Said web site shall also provide contact informatio…
(a) The Jury Administrator, who is appointed in accordance with section 51-10 and subject to supervision by the Chief Court Administrator, shall be responsible for qualifying, summoning, selecting, managing and utilizing jurors in the Superior Court. (b) The Jury Administrator, subject to the approval of the Chief Cour…
(a) In determining the number of jurors to be summoned for jury duty at a court location, the following factors, as well as any other factors which may be relevant, shall be considered: The number of judges assigned to jury trials at the court location; the types of cases that will come to trial during the period of ti…
If it is determined that any estimate by the chief clerks under subsection (c) of section 51-219b, is in excess of or lacking in the number of jurors chosen under section 51-220 for those towns within a given judicial district, the Jury Administrator may adjust the number of jurors chosen for those towns within the jud…
(a) Prior to January 1, 2024, the number of jurors to be chosen from each town shall be equal to a percentage of the town's population rounded off to the nearest whole number, such percentage to be determined by the Jury Administrator in accordance with the provisions of this section and section 51-220a. The number of…
(a) Electronic data processing and similar equipment may be used in the selection, drawing and summoning of jurors under this chapter. At the Jury Administrator's election, the Jury Administrator may enter into a computerized data processing file the names of persons appearing on the list compiled under subsection (b)…
(a) Annually, upon the request of the Jury Administrator, the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall supply the Jury Administrator with the latest updated file of licensed motor vehicle operators for the state and with the latest updated file of holders of identity cards issued under section 1-1h. Upon the request of the…
Section 51-223 is repealed.
If a registrar of voters of a town, after a request from the Jury Administrator pursuant to section 51-222a, fails to provide the list to the Jury Administrator or to the Jury Administrator's representative, the Jury Administrator shall notify the state's attorney for the judicial district of the town from which such l…
The Superior Court may, at any time, at its discretion, order the drawing of a sufficient number of additional jurors to prevent the necessity of summoning talesmen.
Section 51-230 is repealed.
Section 51-231 is repealed, effective October 1, 1997.
Section 51-231a is repealed.
(a) The Jury Administrator shall send to each juror drawn, by first class mail, a notice stating the place where and the time when he or she is to appear and such notice shall constitute a sufficient summons unless a judge of said court directs that jurors be summoned in some other manner. (b) Such summons or notice sh…
The Jury Administrator may modify the date, location or other condition of juror service in order to meet the urgent needs of the court. The Jury Administrator shall employ any means of notice that is appropriate under the circumstances.
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 51-217a and 51-238a, when the number of jurors available for service for the jury year has been exhausted a juror may be impaneled in a new case not sooner than three months after he has been in attendance as a juror.
No verdict may be set aside on account of any irregularity in summoning the jury.
The Office of the Chief Court Administrator shall provide a suitable assembly room in the courthouse for the common jury panel.
Each juror, duly chosen, drawn and summoned, who fails to appear shall be subject to a civil penalty, the amount of which shall be established by the Chief Court Administrator, but the court may excuse such juror from the payment thereof. If a sufficient number of the jurors summoned do not appear, or if for any cause…
Any juror summoned to appear may, in the discretion of the judge of the court to which he is summoned, be permitted to absent himself from the court until a jury on which he may be serving is being impaneled if the judge is satisfied that the juror will return pursuant to the direction of the court. The juror shall not…
Jurors attending court held by any judge may be directed by the judge to attend court held by any other judge in the same judicial district.
The length of the term of service for jurors shall be one day except that (1) if a juror is impaneled on a jury trial which lasts more than one day, then the term of service shall be the length of that trial, or (2) if a juror is administered the voir dire oath and examination of such juror is not completed during that…
The clerk of the court, in impaneling the jury for the trial of each cause, shall, when more jurors are in attendance than are required for the panel, designate by lot those who shall compose the panel.