Often jury service is the most direct participation the average citizen can have in the workings of government. Without you, the jury system cannot work the way the authors of the U.S. and North Carolina Constitution wanted. Yet jury service means rearranging schedules, canceling appointments, and oftentimes missing work. Your public service as a juror protects our right to have a trial by an impartial jury. Occasionally other hours are required by the Court during trial.
Jurors can serve on more than one jury trial.
For example, if a person is selected on a jury trial on their first day of service and the trial is completed early on the morning of the second day, that person will report back to the Jury Assembly Room to be eligible for selection to another jury trial. Prospective jurors summoned for Wednesday and Thursday may also have to appear on that Friday on this occasion for jury selection, rarely occur. It is mandatory that persons reporting for jury service to provide their social security number to be given to the Jury Coordinator in order to process your jury service payment. The Court realizes prospective jurors may be summoned at an inconvenient time and is willing to defer service to a more convenient time in most instances. A person wishing to be deferred to a later date may either call the Jury Coordinator's Office prior to the Wednesday before their jury service date or may appear at the time of jury excusing.