Iowa · statute · Iowa Code ch. 607A · 29 active provisions
It is the policy of this state that all persons be selected at random from a fair cross section of the population of the area served by the court, and that a person shall have both the opportunity in accordance with the provisions of law to be considered for jury service in this state and the obligation to serve as a j…
A person shall not be excluded from jury service or from consideration for jury service in this state on account of age if the person is eighteen years of age or older, race, creed, color, sex, national origin, religion, economic status, physical disability, or occupation.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. “Clerk” means clerk of the district court or the clerk’s designee. 2. “Court” means the district court of this state and includes, when the context requires, a judicial officer as defined in section 602.1101. 3. “Electronic data processing system” means…
1. To serve or to be considered for jury service, a person must possess the following minimum qualifications: a. Be eighteen years of age or older. b. Be a citizen of the United States. c. Be able to understand the English language in a written, spoken, or manually signed mode. d. Be able to receive and evaluate inform…
A person shall be excused from jury service if the person submits written documentation verifying, to the court’s satisfaction, that the person is solely responsible for the daily care of a person with a permanent disability living in the person’s household and that the performance of juror service would cause substant…
The court may defer a term of grand or petit juror service upon a finding of hardship, inconvenience, or public necessity; however the juror may be required to serve at a later date established by the court. The court may excuse a person from grand juror service, considering the length of grand juror service, in part o…
A person who knowingly makes a false affidavit, statement, or claim, for the purpose of relieving the person or another person from juror service, or a person who requests the court to select the person as a juror for a particular case, commits contempt.
1. A grand juror and a petit juror in all courts shall receive thirty dollars as compensation for each day’s service or attendance, including attendance required for the purpose of being considered for service. The supreme court may adopt rules that allow additional compensation for jurors whose attendance and service…
The chief judge of the judicial district shall appoint an individual to serve as the jury manager for each county in that district. A jury manager shall be responsible for the implementation of this chapter for the jury manager’s county and shall assist the state court administrator in implementing this chapter. A jury…
The electronic data processing system shall create a master jury list by merging all of the names from the source lists and removing duplicative entries. The state court administrator shall ensure the electronic data processing system updates the master jury lists from the source list at least once every year. The name…
1. The state court administrator shall ensure the following source lists are merged in the electronic data processing system when preparing grand and petit master jury lists: a. The current voter registration list. b. The current motor vehicle operators list and nonoperators identification list. 2. A jury manager may u…
In counties which are divided for judicial purposes, and in which court is held at more than one place, each division shall be treated as a separate county, and the grand and petit jurors, selected to serve in the respective courts, shall be drawn from the division of the county in which the court is held and at which…
The master jury lists shall be stored in the electronic data processing system, and shall be accessible to only the state court administrator or state court administrator’s designee, or the jury manager or jury manager’s designee.
The clerk or jury manager shall preserve all records and lists compiled and maintained in connection with the identification and service of jurors for four years, or for any longer period ordered by the state court administrator or chief judge of the judicial district.
In any two-year period, a person shall not be required: 1. To serve or attend court for prospective juror service for more than a term of service ordered by the court, not to exceed three months, unless necessary to complete service in a particular case. 2. To serve on more than one grand jury. 3. To serve or attend as…
1. At times necessary for the identification of grand and petit jurors, the jury manager shall arrange for the electronic data processing system to draw the necessary number of grand and petit jurors from the master jury list. 2. The chief judge of the judicial district may by order prescribe the time for the drawing b…
The designated electronic data processing system shall be used for the identification of jurors.
After the jurors have been identified in the manner provided in section 607A.33, and immediately upon the request of the court, the clerk shall issue a notice to report, by regular mail, to the persons identified to appear at the courthouse at times as the court prescribes, for service as petit or grand jurors.
If a person fails to appear when notified to report or at a regularly scheduled meeting, without providing a sufficient cause, the court may issue an order requiring the person to appear and show cause why the person should not be punished for contempt, and unless the person provides a sufficient cause for the failure,…
If the court determines that the petit or grand jurors have been illegally identified or notified to report, the court may set aside the order under which the jurors were identified or notified and direct that a new identification and notification of a sufficient number of replacement jurors take place.
Jurors who have been discharged for any reason may, during the calendar quarter, be instructed to again report if the business of the court necessitates such action.
The court may order as many additional jurors identified for a jury pool or panel as the court deems necessary.
The court may at any time discharge the panel of jurors, or any part of it, and order a new panel, or the number of jurors as deemed necessary, to be drawn.
The names of the new or additional jurors shall be drawn from the jurors identified under sections 607A.39 and 607A.40 by the electronic data processing system that was used to draw the original jury pool or panel.
If the court for any reason determines that there has been such substantial failure to comply with the law relative to jury identification, preparation, or return of grand or petit lists that lawful grand or petit jurors cannot be drawn, or that the lists are exhausted or insufficient for the needs of the court, the co…