2012 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 51 - Courts
Chapter 884 - Jurors
Section 51-237 - Jurors failing to appear.


CT Gen Stat § 51-237 (2012) What's This?

Each juror, duly chosen, drawn and summoned, who fails to appear shall be subject to a civil penalty, the amount of which shall be established by the judges of the Superior Court, but the court may excuse such juror from the payment thereof. If a sufficient number of the jurors summoned do not appear, or if for any cause there is not a sufficient number of jurors to make up the panel, the court may order such number of persons who qualify for jury service under section 51-217 to be summoned as may be necessary, as talesmen, and any talesman so summoned who makes default of appearance without sufficient cause shall be subject to a civil penalty, the amount of which shall be established by the judges of the Superior Court. The provisions of this section shall be enforced by the Attorney General within available appropriations.

(1949 Rev., S. 7925; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 99; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-5, S. 12, 18; P.A. 84-393, S. 12, 18, 20; P.A. 94-169, S. 15, 20; P.A. 96-179, S. 7; P.A. 10-180, S. 3.)

History: 1959 act deleted reference to justice as empowered to excuse juror or order summoning of talesmen; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-5, effective July 1, 1985, and applicable to summoning of jurors for jury duty on and after September 1, 1986, increased fine for failure to appear from $5 to $90 and replaced “judicious electors” with “persons who qualify for jury service under section 51-217”; P.A. 84-393 repealed amendments enacted by June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-5 and amended Subsec. (a), making provisions applicable to jurors selected and summoned to serve as jurors on or before August 31, 1986, and added Subsec. (b) re fine of juror or talesman failing to appear, increasing fine to $90 and making provisions of Subsec. (b) applicable to jurors selected and summoned to serve on or after September 1, 1986; P.A. 94-169 eliminated obsolete provisions, effective July 1, 1994; P.A. 96-179 changed penalty for failure to appear as juror from $90 to an infraction; P.A. 10-180 provided that juror or talesman who fails to appear shall be subject to civil penalty in amount to be established by judges of the Superior Court, deleted provisions re commission of infraction, required Attorney General, within available appropriations, to enforce provisions of section and made a technical change.

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