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MO Rev Stat § 494.410 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Juries|Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries|Section 494.410 - Master jury list.

Effective - 28 Aug 2003   494.410. Master jury list. — 1. The board of jury commissioners shall compile and maintain a list of potential jurors and their addresses, and shall update such list periodically in a manner to be determined by the board. The master jury list shall be comprised of not less than five percent of the total population of the county or city not within a county as determined from the last decennial census. In no event shall the master jury list contain less than four hundred names. In compiling the master jury list the board of jury commissioners shall take reasonable measures to avoid duplication of names.  2. Beginning July 1, 2004, the master jury list shall be the result of random selection of names from a minimum of two government records including, but not limited to, personal property tax list, voter's registration list, and driver's license records. The information furnished by the department of revenue shall not be disclosed except as allowed pursuant to federal law.  3. Whoever has custody, possession, or control of any record used in compiling the master jury list shall make the record available to the board of jury commissioners for inspection, reproduction and copying at all reasonable times.  4. The names on the master jury list shall be considered a public record. The master jury list and copies of all records used in compiling the list shall be retained by the board of jury commissioners for at least five years after compilation of the list. ­­-------- (L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al., A.L. 2003 H.B. 613)
MO Rev Stat § 494.415 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Juries|Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries|Section 494.415 - Qualified jury list — juror qualification form, contents — postponement of service.

Effective - 28 Aug 1999   494.415. Qualified jury list — juror qualification form, contents — postponement of service. — 1. From time to time and in a manner prescribed by the board of jury commissioners there shall be drawn at random from the master jury list the names or identifying numbers of as many prospective jurors as the court may require. The board of jury commissioners shall cause to be served in a manner prescribed by law for the service of summons or by ordinary mail, as determined by the board, a summons for jury service and a juror qualification form. The juror qualification form shall be approved by the circuit court en banc and shall:  (1) Contain instructions to fill out and return the form within ten days;  (2) Contain the prospective juror's declaration that his responses are true to the best of his knowledge; and  (3) Elicit information concerning the prospective juror's qualifications. ­­Notarization of the juror qualification form shall not be required. If the prospective juror is unable to fill out the juror qualification form, another person may do it for the prospective juror and shall so indicate and the reason therefor. Any prospective juror who fails to return a completed juror qualification form as instructed may be directed by the board of jury commissioners to appear forthwith to fill out a juror qualification form.  2. If it is determined from an examination of the juror qualification form that a person is not qualified to serve as a juror, that prospective juror shall be notified in a manner directed by the board of jury commissioners and shall not be required to comply with the summons for jury service. Such names shall be deleted from the master jury list.  3. Upon application by a prospective juror, the jury supervisor or board of jury commissioners, acting in accordance with written guidelines adopted by the circuit court, may postpone that prospective juror's service to a later date.  4. Those prospective jurors not disqualified from jury service shall constitute the qualified jury list. If any prospective juror is later determined to be ineligible or disqualified, such name shall be deleted from the qualified jury list and the master jury list. ­­-------- (L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al., A.L. 1999 S.B. 1, et al.)
MO Rev Stat § 494.420 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Juries|Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries|Section 494.420 - Selection of jurors from qualified jury list.

Effective - 28 Aug 1989   494.420. Selection of jurors from qualified jury list. — 1. Those persons constituting the qualified jury list, when summoned, shall be placed under the control and supervision of the sheriff or other person designated by the board of jury commissioners in a designated area to be provided in the courthouse.  2. Whenever a judge of the circuit court shall require a panel of jurors for jury service, he shall designate the number of jurors required. This number of jurors shall be randomly selected in a manner specified by the board of jury commissioners from the qualified jury list. ­­-------- (L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al.)
MO Rev Stat § 494.425 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Juries|Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries|Section 494.425 - Persons ineligible for jury service.

Effective - 28 Aug 2004   494.425. Persons ineligible for jury service. — The following persons shall be disqualified from serving as a petit or grand juror:  (1) Any person who is less than twenty-one years of age;  (2) Any person not a citizen of the United States;  (3) Any person not a resident of the county or city not within a county served by the court issuing the summons;  (4) Any person who has been convicted of a felony, unless such person has been restored to his civil rights;  (5) Any person unable to read, speak and understand the English language, unless such person's inability is due to a vision or hearing impairment which can be adequately compensated for through the use of auxiliary aids or services;  (6) Any person on active duty in the Armed Forces of the United States or any member of the organized militia on active duty under order of the governor;  (7) Any judge of a court of record;  (8) Any person who, in the judgment of the court, is incapable of performing the duties of a juror because of mental or physical illness or infirmity. The juror or the juror's personal representative, may provide the court with documentation from a physician licensed to practice medicine verifying that a mental or physical condition renders the person unfit for jury service for a period of up to twenty-four months. ­­-------- (L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al., A.L. 2004 S.B. 1211)
MO Rev Stat § 494.432 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Juries|Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries|Section 494.432 - Postponement of jury duty, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 2005   494.432. Postponement of jury duty, when. — 1. Individuals scheduled to appear for jury service have the right to postpone the date of their initial appearance for jury service one time only for reasons other than undue influence or extreme physical or financial hardship. When requested, postponements shall be granted, provided that:  (1) The prospective juror has not previously been granted a postponement;  (2) The prospective juror appears in person or contacts the board of jury commissioners by telephone, electronic mail, or in writing to request a postponement; and  (3) Prior to the grant of a postponement the court shall set the date on which the prospective juror will appear for jury service that is not more than six months after the date on which the prospective juror originally was called to serve and on which date the court will be in session. If a prospective juror is a full-time student of any accredited institution, the court shall set the date on which the prospective juror will appear for jury service that is not more than twelve months after the date on which the prospective juror originally was called to serve and on which the court will be in session.  2. A subsequent request to postpone jury service may be approved by a judicial officer only in the event of an extreme emergency, such as a death in the family, sudden grave illness, or a natural disaster or national emergency in which the prospective juror is personally involved, that could not have been anticipated at the time the initial postponement was granted. Prior to the grant of a second postponement, the prospective juror must fix a date certain on which the individual will appear for jury service within six months of the postponement on a date when the court will be in session. ­­-------- (L. 2004 S.B. 1211, A.L. 2005 S.B. 420 & 344)
MO Rev Stat § 494.435 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Juries|Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries|Section 494.435 - Panel exhausted, other jurors summoned.

Effective - 28 Aug 1989   494.435. Panel exhausted, other jurors summoned. — Whenever there is an unanticipated shortage of available petit jurors drawn from a qualified jury list, the court may require the sheriff or a jury supervisor to summon a sufficient number of petit jurors from bystanders. If any party objects to bystanders being summoned, additional jurors shall be selected at random from the qualified jury list. ­­-------- (L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al.)
MO Rev Stat § 494.440 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Juries|Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries|Section 494.440 - Data processing devices may be used in compiling lists.

Effective - 28 Aug 1989   494.440. Data processing devices may be used in compiling lists. — In compiling and maintaining a list of prospective and qualified jurors and in summoning qualified jurors for service, the board of jury commissioners may use such data processing or mechanical devices as it considers sufficient and efficient to carry out the declared policy of sections 494.400 to 494.505. ­­-------- (L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al.)
MO Rev Stat § 494.442 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Juries|Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries|Section 494.442 - List of licensed drivers to contain Social Security numbers — numbers to be provided to board of jury commissioners — election authority to provide numbers — effective date.

Effective - 01 Jan 1994   494.442. List of licensed drivers to contain Social Security numbers — numbers to be provided to board of jury commissioners — election authority to provide numbers — effective date. — 1. The list required by section 302.110 to be kept by the director of revenue shall, in addition to the information required under section 302.110, contain the Social Security numbers of all licensed drivers, and the Social Security numbers for all drivers who provide such numbers to the director for use as their drivers' license numbers shall be provided to the board of jury commissioners of each county and of each city not within a county for the compilation of the master jury list pursuant to section 494.410. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, Social Security numbers provided to the board of jury commissioners shall not be made available for public inspection but may be used by the board of jury commissioners for official use.  2. The election authority shall include the Social Security numbers of all registered voters who have provided such numbers to the election authority in any lists provided to the board of jury commissioners of each county and of each city not within a county for the compilation of the master jury list pursuant to section 494.410.  3. This section shall become effective on January 1, 1994. ­­-------- (L. 1993 S.B. 88)  Effective 1-01-94
MO Rev Stat § 494.445 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Juries|Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries|Section 494.445 - Petit jurors, maximum number of days required to serve, exception.

Effective - 28 Aug 2004   494.445. Petit jurors, maximum number of days required to serve, exception. — 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 2 and 3, no petit juror shall be required to attend court for prospective jury service more than twenty days in any one-year period except as is necessary to complete service in a particular case.  2. Subsequent to January 1, 2005, in jurisdictions on the nonpartisan court plan, no petit juror shall be required to attend court for prospective jury service for more than two days pursuant to a jury summons unless selected to a panel of prospective jurors for jury service pursuant to subsection 2 of section 494.420, or selected to serve as a petit juror in one particular case.  3. In jurisdictions on the nonpartisan court plan, no petit juror shall be required to serve as a juror for more than twenty days in any one-year period except as is necessary to complete service in a particular case. ­­-------- (L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al., A.L. 1999 S.B. 1, et al., A.L. 2004 S.B. 1211)
MO Rev Stat § 494.450 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Juries|Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries|Section 494.450 - Juror nonattendance, criminal contempt, fine.

Effective - 28 Aug 2004   494.450. Juror nonattendance, criminal contempt, fine. — A person who is summoned for jury service and who willfully fails to appear and who has failed to obtain a postponement in compliance with section 494.432 or as an excuse pursuant to section 494.430, or to respond to the juror qualification form shall be in civil contempt of court, enforceable by an order directing him or her to show cause for his or her failure to comply with the summons and the juror qualification form. Following an order to show cause hearing, the court may impose a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars. The prospective juror may be excused from paying sanctions for good cause shown or in the interests of justice. In addition to, or in lieu of, the fine, the court may order that the prospective juror complete a period of community service for a period of no less than if the prospective juror would have completed jury service, and require that he or she provide proof of completion of such community service to the court. ­­-------- (L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al., A.L. 2004 S.B. 1211)
MO Rev Stat § 494.460 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Juries|Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries|Section 494.460 - Employers prohibited from disciplining employees because of jury duty, action for damages, attorney fees — employees not required to use leave for jury duty — automatic postponement of jury duty, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 2004   494.460. Employers prohibited from disciplining employees because of jury duty, action for damages, attorney fees — employees not required to use leave for jury duty — automatic postponement of jury duty, when. — 1. An employer shall not terminate, discipline, threaten or take adverse actions against an employee on account of that employee's receipt of or response to a jury summons.  2. An employee discharged in violation of this section may bring civil action against his or her employer within ninety days of discharge for recovery of lost wages and other damages caused by the violation and for an order directing reinstatement of the employee. If the employee prevails, the employee shall be entitled to receive a reasonable attorney's fee.  3. An employee may not be required or requested to use annual, vacation, personal, or sick leave for time spent responding to a summons for jury duty, time spent participating in the jury selection process, or time spent actually serving on a jury. Nothing in this provision shall be construed to require an employer to provide annual, vacation, personal, or sick leave to employees under the provisions of this statute who otherwise are not entitled to such benefits under company policies.  4. A court shall automatically postpone and reschedule the service of a summoned juror of an employer with five or fewer full-time employees, or their equivalent, if another employee of that employer has been previously summoned to appear during the same period. Such postponement will not effect an individual's right to one automatic postponement pursuant to section 494.432. ­­-------- (L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al., A.L. 2004 S.B. 1211)
MO Rev Stat § 494.465 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Juries|Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries|Section 494.465 - Challenge of jury on grounds that it was not selected in conformity with sections 494.400 to 494.505.

Effective - 28 Aug 1989   494.465. Challenge of jury on grounds that it was not selected in conformity with sections 494.400 to 494.505. — 1. A party may move to stay the proceedings or for other appropriate relief including, in a criminal case, to quash the indictment if there has been a substantial failure to comply with the declared policy of sections 494.400 to 494.505 in selecting a grand jury, on the ground of substantial failure to comply with the provisions of sections 494.400 to 494.505. Such motion may be made at any time before the petit jury is sworn to try the case or within fourteen days after the moving party discovers or by the exercise of reasonable diligence could have discovered the grounds therefor, whichever occurs later.  2. Upon motion filed under subsection 1 of this section containing a sworn statement of facts which, if true, would constitute a substantial failure to comply with sections 494.400 to 494.505, the moving party is entitled to present in support of the motion the testimony of any competent witness or any relevant records and papers not public or otherwise available used by the board of jury commissioners and any other relevant evidence. If the court determines that in selecting either a grand jury or a petit jury there has been substantial failure to comply with the declared policy of sections 494.400 to 494.505, the court shall stay the proceedings pending the selection of the jury in conformity with the declared policy or grant other appropriate relief.  3. The procedures prescribed by this section are the exclusive means by which a party in a case may challenge a jury on the ground that the jury was not selected in conformity to sections 494.400 to 494.505. ­­-------- (L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al.)
MO Rev Stat § 494.470 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Juries|Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries|Section 494.470 - Challenges for cause, grounds for — juror on panel not summoned off as a witness, exception.

Effective - 28 Aug 1989   494.470. Challenges for cause, grounds for — juror on panel not summoned off as a witness, exception. — 1. No witness or person summoned as a witness in any cause, no person who has formed or expressed an opinion concerning the matter or any material fact in controversy in any case that may influence the judgment of such person, and no person who is kin to either party in a civil case or to the injured party, accused, or prosecuting or circuit attorney in a criminal case within the fourth degree of consanguinity or affinity shall be sworn as a juror in the same cause.  2. Persons whose opinions or beliefs preclude them from following the law as declared by the court in its instructions are ineligible to serve as jurors on that case.  3. All challenges for cause may be tried by the court on the oath of the person challenged or on other evidence and such challenges shall be made before the juror is sworn. If the cause of challenge be discovered after the juror is sworn and before any part of the evidence is delivered, the juror may be discharged or not in the discretion of the court.  4. A prospective juror may be challenged for cause for any reason mentioned in this section and also for any causes authorized by the law.  5. It shall be unlawful for any party to any suit to have summoned off of the regular panel of any jury, qualified for the trial of any cause, any of such jurors, to be used as witnesses in any cause pending in the court, unless the party at whose instance such juror or jurors is summoned shall first show, to the satisfaction of the court, that such juror or jurors so to be summoned are material witnesses, whose evidence he should have in the trial of the cause, and unless he so shows, the court may refuse to allow such juror to be summoned as a juror may be summoned as a witness prior to the first day of the term without first showing to the court that such person is a material witness. ­­-------- (L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al.)
MO Rev Stat § 494.475 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Juries|Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries|Section 494.475 - Inhabitants of city or county not disqualified when city or county is a party.

Effective - 28 Aug 1989   494.475. Inhabitants of city or county not disqualified when city or county is a party. — In all actions brought by or against any county or city, the inhabitants of the county or city so suing or being sued may be jurors, if otherwise competent and qualified. ­­-------- (L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al.)
MO Rev Stat § 494.480 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Juries|Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries|Section 494.480 - Peremptory challenges — civil cases, multiple parties, allocation — criminal cases — qualification of juror as basis for new trial — costs for impaneling jury to be paid, when.

Effective - 01 Jul 1997   494.480. Peremptory challenges — civil cases, multiple parties, allocation — criminal cases — qualification of juror as basis for new trial — costs for impaneling jury to be paid, when. — 1. In trials of civil causes each party shall be entitled to peremptorily challenge three jurors. When there are multiple plaintiffs or defendants, all plaintiffs and all defendants shall join in their challenges as if there were one plaintiff and one defendant. The court in its discretion may allocate the allowable peremptory challenges among the parties plaintiff or defendant upon good cause shown and as the ends of justice require. In all cases, the plaintiff shall announce its challenges first.  2. In all criminal cases, the state and the defendant shall be entitled to a peremptory challenge of jurors as follows:  (1) If the offense charged is punishable by death, the state shall have the right to challenge nine and the defendant nine;  (2) In all other cases punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary, the state shall have the right to challenge six and the defendant six;  (3) In all cases not punishable by death or imprisonment in the penitentiary, the state and the defendant shall each have the right to challenge two.  3. In all criminal cases where several defendants are tried together, the following provisions shall apply:  (1) Each defendant then on trial shall be allowed separate peremptory challenges as provided in subsection 2 of this section;  (2) The number of peremptory challenges allowed the state by subsection 2 of this section shall be multiplied by the number of defendants then on trial in each case.  4. Within such time as may be ordered by the court, the state shall announce its peremptory challenges first and the defendants thereafter. The qualifications of a juror on the panel from which peremptory challenges by the defense are made shall not constitute a ground for the granting of a motion for new trial or the reversal of a conviction or sentence unless such juror served upon the jury at the defendant's trial and participated in the verdict rendered against the defendant.  5. If the defendant pleads guilty to a lesser or included offense other than the offense charged in the information or indictment in return for a specific lesser sentence than such defendant would likely have received if such defendant were found guilty of the crime charged, or makes any other plea bargaining arrangement, at any time after the jury is impaneled such defendant shall be liable to the county for the costs associated with impaneling the jury. ­­-------- (L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al., A.L. 1993 S.B. 180, A.L. 1996 S.B. 869)  Effective 7-01-97