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NCSC Documents  Recent NCSC reports and publications and NCSC seminal works. Also includes Trends articles, Court Executive Development Programs (CEDP) papers, Court Technology Conference Presentations, Justice System Journal articles and NACM Achievement Awards.

Digital Archive  Works on judicial administration accumulated since NCSC's inception in 1971 that have been digitized to preserve their historic value.

Jury System Management   Court Consulting Services helps courts with many jury management issues. 

Center for Jury Studies   Includes the Jury News. a regular feature appearing in the Court Manager and the Jur-E Bulletin, an NCSC weekly publication, 

Jury Adminstration and Management   Best Practices Institute

Jury System Technology   Jury System Technology is an eLearning course offered by the Institute for Court Management.  The course is ongoing.

Jury Management   This Institute for Court Management seminar provides an overview of contemporary jury management. This course begins on April 28, 2010.

Jury Systems Vendors   Jury Systems Vendors from the Court Technology Vendor List.

Jury InfoCenter  Additional CourTopics modules related to this topic.

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Jury Sancations: 2008 Report to the Legislature.  (February 2009).  The Judicial Council submitted this report to the Legislature on the impact of the California superior courts use of the sanctions procedures authorized under California Code of Civil Procedure on jurors who fail to appear after being summoned for jury service.

Rottman, David B., et al. State Court Organization, 2004. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics (2006).  Tables show state-by-state lists of qualifications, excusals, exemptions, etc.

Donahue, Honorable Gary Preliminary Jury Instructions. Ninth National Court Technology Conference, Seattle, Washington (September 2005).  Detailed preliminary Jury instructions relating to the duties of jurors from Division 55 Superior Court in Arizona.

Jury Manager`s Manual. Office of the State Courts Administrator. Tallahassee, FL (1996).  The Jury Managers' Manual is a complete guide to all elements of a trial court juror management system.

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Guidelines for Trials Involving Deaf Jurors Who Serve with the Assistance of Sign Language Interpreters. New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts. Trenton, New Jersey: Language Services Section,  (February 2004).  These guidelines have been prepared to assist judges when prospective jurors who have indicated that they require a sign language or oral interpreter in order to serve as a juror, whether that need is noted on the Juror Qualification Questionnaire or communicated in some other way to court personnel.

Dunlop, Burton D., and Marisa E. Collett. Jury Service Accessibility for Older Persons and Persons with Disabilities in Florida. Tallahassee: Supreme Court Commission on Fairness and Southeast Florida Center on Aging of Florida International University (1999). 

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