2020 Kansas Statutes
Chapter 43 - Jurors
Article 1 - General Provisions
43-158 Same; persons excluded from jury service.
43-158. Same; persons excluded from jury service.
The following persons shall be excused from jury service: (a) Persons unable to understand the English language with a degree of proficiency sufficient to respond to a jury questionnaire form prepared by the commissioner;
(b) persons under adjudication of incompetency;
(c) persons who within 10 years immediately preceding have been convicted of or pleaded guilty, or nolo contendere, to an indictment or information charging a felony;
(d) persons who have served as jurors in the county within one year immediately preceding; and
(e) a mother breastfeeding her child. Jury service shall be postponed until such mother is no longer breastfeeding the child.
History: L. 1971, ch. 176, § 4; L. 1998, ch. 195, § 3; L. 2000, ch. 42, § 1; L. 2006, ch. 11, § 2; March 16.
