Exclusion or Excuse from Service

Exclusion or Excuse from Service. (a) A judge may, for good reason, excuse or exclude from jury service any person called as a juror. (b) Any class or group of persons may, for the public interest, be excluded from the jury panel or excused from service as jurors by court order based on a finding that the jury service would entail undue hardship, extreme inconvenience, or serious obstruction or delay in the fair and impartial administration of justice; provided, that no citizen of the Trust Territory or of the United States shall be excluded from service as a juror on account of race, color or religion. Source: 5 TTC § 505.