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A court clerk (British English: clerk to the court or clerk of the court / k l ɑːr k /; American English: clerk of the court or clerk of court / k l ɜːr k /) is an officer of the court whose responsibilities include maintaining records of a court and administering oaths to witnesses, jurors, and grand jurors [1] [2] as well as performing some quasi-secretarial duties. [3]
Jury selection is the selection of the people who will serve on a jury during a jury trial. The group of potential jurors (the "jury pool,” also known as the venire) is first selected from among the community using a reasonably random method. Jury lists are compiled from voter registrations and driver license or ID renewals.
On January 2, 2020, WILL said it asked the circuit court to hold the Elections Commission in contempt, fining it up to $12,000 daily, until it advanced Malloy's December 17, 2019, order to purge from the voting rolls hundreds of thousands of registered voters who possibly have moved to a different address.
Beginning the second day of jury service, Los Angeles County jurors receive only $15 per day and 34 cents per mile one way. (This is the amount that the State Legislature has imposed.)”
The courthouse clerk's office was kind enough to remind me by text message that I had failed to report for duty and needed to offer an excuse. It felt kind of like being called to the principal's ...
During voir dire, potential jurors are questioned by attorneys and the judge.It has been argued that voir dire is often ineffective at detecting juror bias. [1] Research shows that biographic information in minimal voir dire is not useful for identifying juror bias or predicting verdicts, while attitudinal questions in expanded voir dire can root out bias and predict case outcomes. [2]
In an appeal filed in the S.C. Court of Appeals, attorneys for convicted double-murderer Alex Murdaugh are asking for a new trial based on allegations of jury tampering by clerk of court Becky Hill.
Ozaukee County is included in the Milwaukee–Waukesha–West Allis, WI Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2000 Census, Ozaukee County had the second-lowest poverty rate of any county in the United States, at 2.6%. In terms of per capita income, it is the 25th-wealthiest county in the country.