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Ark. Code Ann. § 16-33-303

Challenge to trial jurors — Individual juror generally

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Strickland v. State (2001)

Most recently applied in Strickland v. State (June 2001)

Crim

(1) The challenge to the individual juror is: For cause;

(2) Peremptory.

(3) The challenge must be taken before he is sworn in chief, but the court, for a good cause, may permit it to be made at any time before the jury is completed.

(4) The challenge to the juror shall first be made by the state and then by the defendant, and the state must exhaust its challenges to each particular juror before the juror is passed to the defendant for challenge or acceptance.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.