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State of the States - Survey of Jury Improvement Efforts: 
A Compendium Report

The State-of-the-States Survey of Jury Improvement Efforts provides the most comprehensive snapshot of contemporary jury operations and practices in state courts ever conducted. This Compendium Report describes state and local jury improvement efforts, the terms and conditions of local jury operations for 1,396 state court jurisdictions, and in-court jury trial practices in 11,752 jury trials conducted in state and federal courts between 2002 and 2006. Click here to view the full report.

Additional information about the National Jury Program, including list of current financial contributors.

New publications based on the State-of-the-States datasets:

*Caseload Highlights

*Civil Action

*Judicature

*Trial Magazine/Judges' Journal

    The State of the States Survey of Jury Improvement Efforts: Executive Summary

 National Program to Increase Citizen Participation in Jury Service 
Through Jury Innovations

   

 The State of the States - Survey of Jury Improvement Efforts: Executive Summary


Local Court Survey Query
The Local Court Survey allows you to select a state and view jury survey question responses. The state data is also compared to the total of all state jury survey responses (ie. the national survey figures). Survey topics include:

survey respondent data
jury reform efforts in the past 5 years
jury reform efforts in the past 5 years
focus of jury reform efforts
numbers and types of source lists used by courts
juror fees; length of term of service
follow-up programs; jury yields
numbers and types of jury trials
types of jury technology used by courts
types of juror information available to attorneys

Access the local court survey results:

Select a State


  Judge and Attorney Survey
The Judge and Attorney Survey allows you to select a state and view jury survey question responses. The state data is also compared to the total of all state jury survey responses (ie. the national survey figures) and federal data. Survey topics include:

survey respondent data
legal and evidentiary complexity of trials
voir dire questioning methods
length of voir dire; length of jury deliberations
are jurors permitted to take notes, provided with notepaper/writing utensils/trial notebook
are jurors permitted to submit questions to witnesses
when are jurors permitted to discuss evidence
when are jurors instructed; are they given written instructions
are jurors given guidance on conducting deliberations
do alternates deliberate, are jurors sequestered
notorious or complex trials

Access the judge and lawyer survey results:

Select a State


  State Rankings of Survey Results
State rankings based upon the survey results are available for the parameters listed below.

Who questions during voir dire
Length of voir dire - Civil
Length of voir dire - Felony
% of jurors questioned individually at sidebar/in chambers during voir dire
% of jurors permitted to take notes
% of jurors permitted to submit questions
% of jurors instructed before closing arguments
% of trials in which at least 1 copy of written instructions given to the jurors
% of trials in which all jurors received written instructions.

         
 
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