Arizona Laws 21-331. Procedure for summoning jurors
A. The jury commissioner or jury manager shall use either of the following methods for summoning persons for a particular juror pool:
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 21-331
- Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
- Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
- including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Juror: A person who is on the jury.
- Jury commissioner: means the clerk of the superior court, except that in any county having a population of more than five hundred thousand persons, the presiding judge of the superior court may appoint a jury commissioner. See Arizona Laws 21-101
- Jury manager: means the person who is responsible for jury management in a justice of the peace court or a municipal court. See Arizona Laws 21-101
- Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Registered mail: includes certified mail. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
- Trial jury: A group of citizens who hear the evidence presented by both sides at trial and determine the facts in dispute. Federal criminal juries consist of 12 persons. Federal civil juries consist of six persons.
1. The court shall order the jury commissioner or jury manager to summon a specific number of qualified jurors, at random, for either a trial jury or grand jury panel.
2. The jury commissioner or jury manager shall determine a specific number of persons to be summoned for a court location and date.
B. In counties in which multiple superior court locations exist, a juror shall not be summoned to more than one court location on the same date and is not required to serve in more than one court location on any specific date.
C. The summons shall be delivered by giving personal notice to each person, or by leaving a written notice to that effect at the person’s place of residence, with some person of proper age and discretion, by telephone or by mailing such notice by first class mail, registered mail or certified mail.
D. Any person who fails to appear in response to a notice sent by first class mail shall be immediately resummoned by a notice sent by first class mail, registered mail or certified mail and shall not be subject to a body attachment or fine as provided in section 21-334 unless the juror fails to appear in response to this second summons. Notwithstanding section 21-301, subsection C, for any juror whose mail is returned as undeliverable, the jury commissioner or jury manager shall notify the county recorder who shall send a follow-up notice to the juror pursuant to section 16-166, subsection A, including information regarding possible removal from the voter registration rolls, and on completion of the notification process pursuant to section 16-166, the county recorder shall transfer the juror to the inactive voter list.