Bill Text: VA HB432 | 2024 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Jurors; availability of copy of jury panel to counsel.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-03-08 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0040) [HB432 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2024-HB432-Chaptered.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §8.01-353 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§8.01-353. Notice to jurors; making copy of jury panel available to counsel; objection to notice.
A. The sheriff shall notify the jurors on the list, or such
number of them as the judge may direct to appear in court on such day as the
court may direct. Such notice shall be given a juror as provided by §8.01-298.
Verbal direction given by the judge, or at his direction, to a juror who has
been given notice as hereinbefore provided that he appear at a later specified
date, shall be a sufficient notice. Any notice given as provided herein shall
have the effect of an order of court. No particular time in advance of the
required appearance date shall be necessary for verbal notice hereunder, but
the court may, in its discretion, excuse from service a juror who claims lack
of sufficient notice. Upon request, the clerk or sheriff or other officer
responsible for notifying jurors to appear in court for the trial of a case
shall make available to all counsel of record in that case, a copy of the jury
panel to be used for the trial of the case at least three five
full business days before the trial. Such copy of the jury panel shall show the
name, age, address, occupation, and employer of each person on the
panel. Any error in the information shown on such copy of the jury panel shall
not be grounds for a mistrial or assignable as error on appeal, and the parties
in the case shall be responsible for verifying the accuracy of such
information.
B. No judgment shall be arrested or reversed for the failure of the record to show that there was service upon a juror of notice to appear in court unless made a ground of exception in the trial before the jury is sworn.
