As Amended
SEC. 13-5-25. Who is exempt as a personal privilege.
[Until January 1, 2007 this section shall read as follows:]
Every citizen over sixty-five (65) years of age, and everyone who has served on the regular panel as a juror in the actual trial of one or more litigated cases within two (2) years, shall be exempt from service if he claims the privilege; but the latter class shall serve as talesmen, and on special venire, and on the regular panel, if there be a deficiency of jurors. No qualified juror shall be excluded because of any such reasons, but the same shall be a personal privilege to be claimed by any person selected for jury duty. Any citizen over sixty-five (65) years of age may claim this personal privilege outside of open court by providing the clerk of court with information that allows the clerk to determine the validity of the claim.
Provided, however, that no person who has served on the regular panel as a juror in the actual trial of one or more litigated cases in one (1) court may claim the exemption in any other court where he may be called to serve.
[From and after January 1, 2007, this section shall read as follows:]
Every citizen over sixty-five (65) years of age, and everyone who has served on the regular panel as a juror in the actual trial of one or more litigated cases within two (2) years, shall be exempt from service if he claims the privilege * * *. No qualified juror shall be excluded because of any such reasons, but the same shall be a personal privilege to be claimed by any person selected for jury duty. Any citizen over sixty-five (65) years of age may claim this personal privilege outside of open court by providing the clerk of court with information that allows the clerk to determine the validity of the claim.
Provided, however, that no person who has served on the regular panel as a juror in the actual trial of one or more litigated cases in one (1) court may claim the exemption in any other court where he may be called to serve.
SOURCES: Codes, 1880, Secs. 1661, 1683; 1892, Sec. 2357; 1906, Sec. 2687; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 2179; 1930, Sec. 2032; 1942, Sec. 1765; Laws, 1958, ch. 287; 1960, ch. 236; 1966, ch. 353, Sec. 1. Laws, 1976, ch. 464, Sec. 2; 1990, ch. 360, Sec. 2; Laws, 2004, 1st Ex Sess, ch. 1, § 9, HB 13, eff from and after Jan. 1, 2007.
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