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Jury lists are created from statewide voter and driver's license lists. The name of every citizen of the state is included in the statewide jury pool unless such person has been previously excused from jury service for the reasons indicated below.

To be eligible for Jury Service You Must Be:

To be eligible for jury duty, an individual must be a legal resident of Liberty County (have lived here for six months or longer), eighteen (18) years of age or older, and a U.S. Citizen.

Persons convicted of a felony (or a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude) who have not been pardoned or had their civil rights restored are not eligible for jury service.

Only Four Reasons to be Permanently Inactivated as a Juror

(a)	Persons who have been declared by a doctor to have a permanent mental and/or physical disability;
(b)	Persons who are 70 years of age or older and who have been granted inactivation as the result of their age;
(c)	Persons who have been identified by the clerk as being deceased; and
(d)	Persons who have been identified by the clerk as ineligible due to their having been declared mentally incompetent by order of a court.

§ 15-12-60. Qualifications of grand jurors; impact of ineligibility

(a) Any citizen of this state 18 years of age or older who has resided in the county for at least six months preceding the time of service shall be eligible and liable to serve as a grand juror.

(b) Any person who holds any elective office in state or local government or who has held any such office within a period of two years preceding the time of service as a grand juror shall not be eligible to serve as a grand juror.

(c) The following individuals shall not be eligible to serve as a grand juror:

(1) Any individual who has been convicted of a felony in a state or federal court who has not had his or her civil rights restored;

(2) Any individual who has been judicially determined to be mentally incompetent;

(3) Any individual charged with a felony offense and who is in a pretrial release program, a pretrial release and diversion program, or a pretrial intervention and diversion program, as provided for in Article 4 of Chapter 18 of Title 15 or Article 5 of Chapter 8 of Title 42 or pursuant to Uniform Superior Court Rule 27, a similar diversion program from another state, or a similar federal court diversion program for a felony offense;

(4) Any individual sentenced for a felony offense pursuant to Code Section 16-13-2 who has not completed the terms of his or her sentence;

(5) Any individual serving a sentence for a felony offense pursuant to Article 3 of Chapter 8 of Title 42 or serving a first offender sentence for a felony offense pursuant to another state's law; and

(6) Any individual who is participating in a drug court division, mental health court division, veterans court division, a similar court program from another state, or a similar federal court program for a felony offense.

(d) If an indictment is returned, and a grand juror was ineligible to serve as a grand juror pursuant to subsection (c) of this Code section, such indictment shall not be quashed solely as a result of such ineligibility.

All other persons may be considered for qualification as eligible jurors.

Any citizen whose name is placed on the jury list(s) of the county is eligible for service upon being randomly selected by the electronic, computer-based jury selection system of the Clerk of Superior Court and State Court.

§ 15-12-1.1 Exemptions from Jury Duty- Excusals or Deferrals

• Work necessary to the public health, safety, or good order or who shows other good cause why he or she should be exempt from jury duty may have his or her jury service deferred or excused by the judge of the court to which he or she has been summoned or by some other person who has been duly appointed by order of the chief judge to excuse jurors.
• A full-time student at a college, university, vocational school, or other postsecondary school who, during the period of time the student is enrolled and taking classes or exams, requests to be excused or deferred from jury duty shall be excused or deferred from jury duty.
• Any person who is the primary caregiver having active care and custody of a child six years of age or younger.
• Any person who is a primary teacher in a home study program
• Any person who is the primary unpaid caregiver for a person over the age of six with physical or cognitive limitations.
• Any military duty performed in the service of the state or of the United States, including, but not limited to, attendance at any service school or schools conducted by the armed forces of the United States which requires a service member to be at least 50 miles from his or her home.
• "Service member" means an active duty member of the regular or reserve component of the United States armed forces, the United States Coast Guard, the Georgia National Guard, or the Georgia Air National Guard who was on ordered federal duty for a period of 90 days or longer.
• Any service member on ordered military duty or the spouse of any such service member who requests to be excused or deferred shall be excused or deferred from jury duty upon presentation of a copy of a valid military identification card and execution of an affidavit in the form required by the court for deferral or excusal under this paragraph.
• Excusals shall be by the judge or person who has been duly appointed by order of the chief judge to excuse jurors. (Judge shall notify the Clerk of any excusals or deferments).
• Such a person may exercise such authority only after the establishment of guidelines governing excuses by an order.
• It shall be the duty of the court to provide affidavits for the purpose of requesting a deferral of or excusal from jury service pursuant to this subsection.

Recurring and Repetitive Juror Service Issues

• No person shall be allowed to serve on the trial jury of the superior court or on any trial jury in other courts for more than four weeks in any one year unless he or she is actually engaged in the trial of a case when the four weeks expire, in which case he or she shall be discharged as soon as the case is decided.
• Any person who has served as a trial or grand juror at any session of the superior or state courts shall be ineligible for duty as a juror until the next succeeding county master jury list has been received by the clerk.

A local court order signed by the Chief Judge of Superior may assert guidelines to handle any jury service issue.

Should you have questions or need additional information, please contact Linda Dixon Thompson, Clerk of Liberty Superior Court (Liberty County Justice Center, 201 South Main Street, Suite 1200, Hinesville, Georgia 31313, Attention: Jury Revision Clerk; Telephone (912) 369-JURY (5879).

Your cooperation and assistance is greatly appreciated.