Jury Selection and Contact with Trial Jurors
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia
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(a) Proposed Voir Dire. Unless otherwise ordered by the Court, the parties shall file any requests for special voir dire no later than 7 days prior to trial. (b) Examination of Jurors. Unless otherwise ordered, the Court shall examine prospective jurors.
Counsel for the parties may submit further questions the Court may ask. (c) Challenges for Cause. Challenges for cause of individual prospective jurors shall be made out of the hearing of prospective jurors and shall be made immediately upon counsel learning of the basis for the challenge. (d) Peremptory Challenges.
Unless ordered otherwise, peremptory challenges under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 24 shall be exercised in the following manner: (1) Non-Capital Felony Cases Round Government Defendant(s) Challenges Challenges 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 (2) In all other cases, the Government may exercise the first challenge and Defendant(s) may exercise the second challenge, alternating in this fashion until all challenges have been exercised. (3) Regarding additional peremptory challenges to prospective alternate jurors, the Government may exercise the first challenge and Defendant(s) may exercise the second 31 challenge, alternating in this fashion until all challenges have been exercised. (e) Contact with Trial Jurors. Attorneys, parties, or anyone acting on their behalf shall not directly or indirectly contact any juror, including any alternate or excused juror, without express permission of the Court.
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