Free GenNotice RandomJurySel - South Carolina

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA

DIVISIONAL OFFICES
P. O. BOX 835 CHARLESTON, SC 29402 (843)579-1401 FAX 579-1402 P. O. BOX 10768 GREENVILLE, SC 29603 (864) 241-2700 FAX 241-2711 P. O. BOX 2317 FLORENCE, SC 29503 (843) 676-3820 FAX 676-3831

OFFICE OF THE CLERK LARRY W. PROPES
CLERK OF COURT

901 RICHLAND STREET COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA 29201-2431 (803) 765-5816 FAX (803) 765-5960 www.scd.uscourts.gov

NOTICE OF RANDOM SELECTION OF JUROR NAMES
The United States District Court for the District of South Carolina uses a two-step process to select jurors in accordance with the District's Jury Selection Plan. The master jury wheel is created by randomly selecting names from the South Carolina Election Commission Voter Registration Lists. Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Subsection 1861, all litigants "have the right to grand and petit jurors selected at random from a fair cross section of the community" as represented in the Voter Registration Lists of all counties within the state. Periodically names are randomly drawn from the master jury wheel to receive juror qualification questionnaires which enable the court to determine if those selected are legally qualified to serve. The names of qualified persons are put on a second wheel, the qualified jury wheel. As prospective jurors are needed for a specific trial or grand jury, summons are sent to persons randomly selected from the qualified wheel using a properly programmed electronic data processing system for pure randomized selection to ensure that the mathematical odds of any single name being picked are substantially equal.