Title 14, Title 14

Supernumerary jurors may be excused from time to time until wanted, and they may be placed on either jury as occasion requires. Jurors may be transferred from one jury to the other when convenience requires it. For good reason any juror may be excused.

The following shall be the form of oath, administered to traverse jurors in civil causes: "You, and each of you, swear that in all causes committed to you, you will give a true verdict therein according to the law and the evidence given you. So help you God." [PL 1977, c. 114, §1…

When, by reason of challenge or other cause, a sufficient number of jurors duly drawn and summoned cannot be obtained for the trial of a cause, the court shall cause jurors to be returned from the bystanders or from the county at large to complete the panel if they are on the jur…

The court may, in term time, issue venires for as many jurors as are wanted, to be drawn, notified and returned forthwith or on a day appointed. When in any county the business requires a protracted session, the court may, during the term, excuse all or any of the jurors original…

In prosecutions for recovery of money or other forfeiture, it is not a cause of challenge to a juror that he is liable to pay taxes in a county, town or plantation which may be benefited by the recovery.

A prospective juror is disqualified to serve on a jury if that prospective juror is not a citizen of the United States, 18 years of age and a resident of the county, or is unable to read, speak and understand the English language. The following persons are exempt from serving as …

1. Determination. Upon request of a prospective juror, the presiding justice or the clerk of court acting under the supervision of the presiding justice shall determine whether the prospective juror is excused from jury service. The determination must be made on the basis of info…

Within 7 days after the moving party discovered or by the exercise of diligence could have discovered the grounds therefor, and in any event before the traverse jury is sworn to try the case, a party may move to stay the proceedings, and in a criminal case to dismiss the indictme…

A juror is entitled to paid mileage at the rate of 15¢ per mile for travel expenses from the juror's residence to the place of holding court and return, except that, beginning July 1, 2016, a juror is entitled to paid mileage at the rate established in Title 5, section 8. A juror…

1. Frequency. Over the course of a person's life, the person may not be required: A. To serve or attend court for prospective service as a traverse juror more than 3 times and not more often than once in any 5-year period. For purposes of this paragraph, a requirement to serve or…

A person summoned for jury service who fails to appear or to complete jury service as directed shall be ordered by the court to appear forthwith and show cause for his failure to comply with the summons. Notwithstanding Title 17-A, section 4-A, a prospective juror who fails to sh…

An employer may not deprive an employee of employment or health insurance coverage, or threaten or otherwise coerce the employee with respect to loss of employment or health insurance coverage, because the employee receives a summons for jury service, responds to a summons for ju…

The Supreme Judicial Court may make and amend rules, not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, regulating the selection and service of jurors.

The Supreme Judicial Court shall adopt and implement a written master plan for the random selection and usage of grand and traverse jurors that shall be designed to foster the policy, protect the rights secured and otherwise comply with the provisions of this chapter.

1. Lists used. The lists of licensed drivers, persons issued an identification card by the Secretary of State and any person who notifies the clerk of the court in the county of their residence and requests to be put on the source list of prospective jurors shall serve as the sou…

When the volume of names on the source list is, in the judgment of the court, so large as to render the drawing of names by the means available to the court unduly cumbersome, burdensome and uneconomical, the court may order that a secondary list be created. This list shall be cr…

The lists required to be created and maintained by this subchapter may be created and maintained by use of electronic data processing equipment.

The lists of licensed drivers provided by the Secretary of State may only be used for the selection of traverse and grand jurors pursuant to this chapter.

From time to time and in a manner prescribed by the juror selection plan, the clerk shall draw, or cause to be drawn, at random, from the source or master list, as appropriate, the names or identifying numbers of as many prospective jurors as the court deems necessary for service…

1. Procedure. The clerk shall, at times considered reasonable and necessary to promote the efficient operation of the court and the juror selection system, mail a juror qualification form to every prospective juror whose name has been drawn in accordance with section 1253‑A. The …

1. Records preserved. The clerk shall cause to be preserved all records and lists compiled and maintained in connection with selection and service of jurors for the length of time ordered by the court. 2. Records' confidentiality. The records and information used in connection wi…

From time to time, as specified in the juror selection plan, the clerk shall summon or cause to be summoned sufficient prospective jurors as in his judgment are necessary to supply traverse jurors or grand jurors, or both, for the Superior Court. [PL 1981, c. 705, Pt. G, §16 (NEW…

If for any reason a grand jury or a traverse jury is dismissed before completing its work, the clerk of courts shall proceed to draw and notify new jurors in accordance with section 1255-A.

The Supreme Judicial Court is authorized to prescribe by rule or order the selection of juries from regions consisting of a single county or a reasonably compact group of counties for trials of criminal prosecutions or civil actions in the Superior Court. If the Supreme Judicial …

The court, on motion of either party in an action, may examine, on oath, any person called as a juror therein, whether he is related to either party, has given or formed an opinion or is sensible of any bias, prejudice or particular interest in the cause. If it appears from his a…

If a party knows any objection to a juror in season to propose it before trial and omits to do so, he shall not afterwards make it, unless by leave of court for special reasons.

In actions of contract against more than one defendant, the jury may return a separate verdict as to each defendant or as to 2 or more defendants jointly, and judgments shall be entered accordingly. In case of separate judgment against defendants in the same action, the court sha…

No irregularity in the venires or drawing, summoning, returning or impaneling jurors is sufficient to set aside a verdict, unless the party objecting was injured by the irregularity or unless the objection was made before the return of the verdict.

If either party, in a cause in which a verdict is returned, during the same term of the court, before or after the trial, gives to any of the jurors who try the cause any treat or gratuity or purposely introduces among the papers delivered to the jury when they retire with the ca…

In the trial of all civil suits in the Superior Court of this State, if a number of jurors equal to at least 2/3 of the total number of jurors serving on a jury agree on a verdict or finding, they shall return it into court as the verdict or finding of that jury and the trial jud…