Title 13, Courts and Court Procedure
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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-101 Short title
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This article shall be known and may be cited as the Colorado Uniform Jury Selection and Service Act. Source: L. 89: Entire article R&RE, p. 765, � 1, effective January 1, 1990. Editor's note: This section is similar to former � 13-71-101 as it existed prior to 1989.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-102 Definitions
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As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Clerk and clerk of the court include any deputy clerk or the jury commissioner. (2) Court means a district or county court of this state and includes any judge of the court. (2.5) Juror service means the period o…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-103 Number of trial jurors
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A jury in civil cases shall consist of six persons, unless the parties agree to a smaller number, which shall be not less than three. Source: L. 89: Entire article R&RE, p. 766, � 1, effective January 1, 1990. Editor's note: This section is similar to former � 13-70-102 as it exi…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-104 Eligibility for juror service - prohibition of discrimination
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(1) Juror service is a duty that every qualified person has an obligation to perform when selected. (2) All trial and grand jurors shall be selected at random from a fair cross section of the population of the area served by the court. All selected and summoned jurors shall serve…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-105 Qualifications for juror service
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(1) Any person who is a United States citizen and resides in a county or lives in such county more than fifty percent of the time, whether or not registered to vote, shall be qualified to serve as a trial or grand juror in such county. Citizenship and residency status on the date…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-106 Jury commissioners
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The chief judge of each judicial district shall appoint a jury commissioner for each county within that judicial district. Each jury commissioner shall be compensated as determined by the supreme court pursuant to section 13-3-105, but no court employee who serves as a jury commi…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-107 Master juror list
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(1) Each year, the state court administrator shall obtain from the secretary of state a voter registration list for each county in the state. The state court administrator shall also obtain licensed driver lists from the department of revenue, and, where available, the department…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-108 Master juror wheel
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(1) The state court administrator shall use an electronic automated system to compile and maintain a master juror wheel. The wheel shall consist of names, addresses, dates of birth, identifying numbers, and jury histories for prospective jurors taken from the master juror list. E…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-109 Random selection from master juror list
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If all prospective jurors on the master juror list are not needed, selection of the names or identifying numbers of prospective jurors to be placed on the master juror wheel shall be by a random selection method which ensures equal probability of selection. Source: L. 89: Entire …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-110 Juror selection and summoning
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A jury commissioner shall specify the number of trial jurors needed for each day's juror pool or for selection of a grand jury within that commissioner's county. The state court administrator shall then randomly select the specified number of jurors required from the master juror…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-111 Contents of juror summons
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(1) The juror summons shall state: Whether the anticipated service is that of a trial or grand juror; the beginning date of the juror service; the name, address, hour, and room number, if any, of the courthouse or office to which the juror shall report on the first day of service…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-112 Emergency summonses
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In order to meet emergency needs of the court, the state court administrator or a jury commissioner, by any means of notice including notice by telephone, may summon additional trial or grand jurors to appear for juror service at a time certain and shall inform the juror at which…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-113 Modification of juror service
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In order to meet the urgent needs of the court, a jury commissioner may modify the date, location, or other condition of trial or grand juror service and may notify the prospective juror of the modification by telephone or other appropriate means. Source: L. 89: Entire article R&…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-114 Cancellation of juror service
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Whenever it appears that the number of jurors scheduled to appear is in excess of the number needed, a jury commissioner may cancel the trial or grand juror service of a prospective juror and may notify the juror by telephone or other appropriate means. Any juror whose service ha…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-115 Juror questionnaires
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(1) On or before the first day of the term of trial or grand juror service, each juror shall be given a juror questionnaire requesting the following information about the juror: Name, sex, date of birth, age, residence, and marital status; the number and ages of children; educati…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-116 Trial juror's right to one postponement - definition
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(1) A trial juror shall have the right to one postponement of the term of juror service. The postponement must not last more than six months, but may extend into the next calendar year; except that, if a trial juror is a Colorado resident and a student enrolled in an institution …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-116.5 Postponement related to co-employee jury service
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Upon notice by an employee, a jury commissioner shall postpone and reschedule the service of a summoned juror who is regularly employed by an employer with five or fewer full-time employees or their equivalent if, during the same period, another employee of the employer has been …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-117 Assignment of courthouse location
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Every trial and grand juror shall be notified on the summons, or otherwise, to perform juror service at a designated court location within each county. The jury commissioner or the court may permit a juror to serve at a different courthouse location within the county upon a findi…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-118 Telephone notice
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The jury commissioner or the court may permit a trial or grand juror to be available for juror service or continued juror service upon telephone notice. Such a juror shall provide the court with a telephone number at which the juror may be reached, with certainty, and shall agree…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-119 Deferments and excuses - limitations
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(1) It shall be the policy of this article that every trial juror shall be prepared to serve three trial days except as otherwise provided in this section or in section 13-71-104, 13-71-105, or 13-71-119.5. (2) The court or the jury commissioner may defer or advance the term of s…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-119.5 Persons entitled to be excused from jury service
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(1) The general assembly finds and declares that it is the policy of this state that all qualified citizens have an obligation to serve on juries when summoned by the courts of this state unless excused in accordance with the provisions of this article. (2) (a) (I) A person shall…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-120 Length of juror service
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Trial juror service shall be for a one-day term unless a juror is assigned to or impaneled on an incompleted trial when the one-day term ends, or unless the court orders otherwise. Nothing shall prevent a trial juror from serving on more than one jury or participating in more tha…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-121 Extended trials
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Before a jury is impaneled, the court shall inform the jurors if a trial is expected to last more than three trial days and may excuse a juror from performing juror service in that trial upon a finding of hardship or inconvenience, taking into account the expected length of the t…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-122 Failure to appear - delinquency notice
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The jury commissioner may send a delinquency notice by certified or first-class mail to any trial or grand juror who has failed to appear for juror service. The purposes of delinquency notices shall be only to notify the jurors of their delinquent status and to rectify the proble…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-123 Enforcement of juror duties
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The court shall take whatever action may be appropriate to enforce the provisions of this article. Upon a finding that a juror will not appear to perform or complete juror service or in response to the court's order, the court may take such action as is likely to compel the juror…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-124 Delegation of authority to jury commissioner
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The state court administrator or the court may delegate to jury commissioners such authority as is appropriate for the efficient administration of this article. Source: L. 89: Entire article R&RE, p. 770, � 1, effective January 1, 1990.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-125 Compensation and reimbursement
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The compensation and reimbursement policy of this article shall be to prevent, insofar as possible, financial hardship for any juror because of the performance of juror service. Where financial hardship exists, the court shall attempt to place the juror in the same financial posi…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-126 Compensation of employed jurors during first three days of service
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All regularly employed trial or grand jurors shall be paid regular wages, but not to exceed fifty dollars per day unless by mutual agreement between the employee and employer, by their employers for the first three days of juror service or any part thereof. Regular employment sha…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-127 Financial hardship of employer or self-employed juror
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The court shall excuse an employer or a self-employed juror from the duty of compensation for trial or grand juror service upon a finding that it would cause financial hardship. When such a finding is made, a juror shall receive reasonable compensation in lieu of wages from the s…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-128 Reimbursement of unemployed jurors during first three days of service
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Each trial or grand juror who is unemployed may apply to the jury commissioner on the first day of juror service and shall be reimbursed by the state for reasonable travel, child care, and other necessary out-of-pocket expenses, except food, for the first three days of juror serv…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-129 Compensation of jurors after first three days of service
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The state shall pay each trial or grand juror who serves more than three days for the fourth day of service and each day thereafter at the rate of fifty dollars per day. A trial or grand juror receiving payment under this section shall not be entitled to additional reimbursement …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-129.5 Public transportation for jurors
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In all judicial districts with one or more publicly owned or operated systems of public transportation, the office of the state court administrator shall work with officials of the public transportation system or systems to create and implement a plan whereby each juror may obtai…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-130 Limitations on juror compensation
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The state shall compensate and credit each juror for only those days on which the juror appeared as directed to perform juror service. Holidays and business days on which a trial has been recessed are excluded. Source: L. 89: Entire article R&RE, p. 771, � 1, effective January 1,…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-131 Special awards of compensation and reimbursement
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Notwithstanding any other provisions of this article, the court is authorized to make special awards of compensation and reimbursement to any juror based upon unusual circumstances or to effect the purposes of this article. By appropriate order, the court may make special arrange…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-132 Juror service acknowledgment information - requests - payment
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(1) The juror service acknowledgment shall contain the following information: The name of the juror; the jury commissioner contact information and the number of days of juror service performed; a declaration of the duty of the employer to compensate an employed juror for the firs…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-133 Enforcement of employer's duty to compensate jurors
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Any employer who fails to compensate an employed juror under the applicable provisions of this article and who has not been excused from such duty of compensation shall be liable to the employed juror. If the employer fails to compensate a juror within thirty days after tender of…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-134 Penalties and enforcement remedies for harassment by employer
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(1) An employer shall not deprive an employed juror of employment or any incidents or benefits thereof, nor shall an employer harass, threaten, or coerce an employee because the employee receives a juror summons, responds thereto, performs any obligation or election of juror serv…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-135 Juror orientation program
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The office of the state court administrator shall establish guidelines for the orientation of prospective jurors. Source: L. 89: Entire article R&RE, p. 772, � 1, effective January 1, 1990.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-136 Availability of juror list
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(1) Absent a court order to the contrary, upon request, the jury commissioner shall make available for inspection by parties, counsel, or their agents a list of prospective jurors containing the jurors' names. The jury commissioner shall assure that the juror resides in the prope…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-137 Duties and responsibilities of auxiliary services providers for jurors who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deafblind
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(1) The court may provide, through the list of available resources coordinated through the division for the deaf, hard of hearing, and deafblind pursuant to section 26-21-106 (4), a qualified provider of auxiliary services, as defined in section 13-90-202 (3), to assist during a …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-138 Preservation of juror records
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All official records and papers compiled and maintained by the state court administrator concerning jurors shall be preserved for three years after the calendar year to which they apply. Official records shall include records in automated form on magnetic tapes and disks. Source:…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-139 Challenge of juror pool
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(1) Any party to a civil or criminal action may challenge by written motion the composition of the juror pool for substantial failure to comply with the requirements of this article. The written motion shall be filed prior to the swearing in of the jury selected to try the case a…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-140 Irregularity in selecting, summoning, and managing jurors
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The court shall not declare a mistrial or set aside a verdict based upon allegations of any irregularity in selecting, summoning, and managing jurors, or in limiting the length of any term of juror service, or based upon any other defect in any procedure performed under this arti…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-141 Authority to contract and accept gifts
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The state court administrator, and district administrators with the approval of the state court administrator, may enter into contracts and agreements with, and accept gifts, grants, contributions, and bequests of funds from, any department, agency, or political subdivision of th…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-142 Alternate jurors
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In all civil and criminal trials, the court may call and impanel alternate jurors to replace jurors who are disqualified or who the court may determine are unable to perform their duties prior to deliberation. Alternate jurors shall be summoned in the same manner, have the same q…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-143 Grand jurors - vacancies
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Vacancies which exist on a grand jury panel shall be filled in accordance with section 13-72-106. Source: L. 89: Entire article R&RE, p. 774, � 1, effective January 1, 1990.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-144 Jury fees to be assessed in civil cases
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(1) (a) On and after July 1, 2019, any party demanding a trial by jury as provided by statute shall pay to the clerk of the court a fee of two hundred thirty-one dollars in district court cases at the time the demand is made pursuant to the Colorado rules of civil procedure. (b) …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-71-145 Expense of meals and provisions to be taxed
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In all civil cases if any expenses are incurred in furnishing meals or provisions to jurors impaneled to try such causes, such expenses shall be taxed as costs in the suit against the unsuccessful party. When collected, the same shall be paid to the clerk of the court for deposit…