2013 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 38 - Trials
Article 5 - Drawing and Empaneling Jurors
Section 38-5-10 - Summoning of jurors; claiming exemption. (1991)


NM Stat § 38-5-10 (2013) What's This?

38-5-10. Summoning of jurors; claiming exemption. (1991) 
Upon drawing a list of jurors for grand jury or petit jury service, the clerk shall issue a summons for each juror ordering his attendance at a time and place as fixed by the district judge or magistrate ordering the drawing. The summons may be served by first class mail or in a manner provided for the service of civil process.  A willful failure to appear as ordered in the summons is a petty misdemeanor.  Accompanying each summons, the clerk of the court shall submit for the information of the jurors the listing of those classes of persons or qualifications provided by law under which an exemption from jury service may be claimed. Jurors shall be provided a form upon which they may state the facts supporting their eligibility to claim exemption from jury service and to express a claim for exemption.   
  History: 1953 Comp., § 19-1-10, enacted by Laws 1969, ch. 222, § 10; 1991, ch. 71, § 3. 

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