In cases to be tried to a jury, a list of prospective jurors shall be compiled by the Court Clerk and kept on file at the Clerk’s office. Jury summonses will be sent to prospective jurors no later than two weeks prior to the first day of any trial.

The Clerk shall draw by lot 12 names from the list of summoned jurors. Six members shall then be seated. The parties then will be permitted to question jurors as to their impartiality and fairness. The judge may excuse any juror if, in the judge’s judgment, that juror should not be expected to be a juror in the instant case. Any party to the case may challenge, and have dismissed, any juror for cause. Community knowledge of a matter is unavoidable in a reservation community and as such will not be a direct reason for a dismissal of a juror for cause; rather, there would need to be evidence of intimate knowledge or relationship such that an indisputable bias can be found to exist in the juror before excusing for cause based on knowledge of the matter. Each of the parties shall then have an opportunity to excuse three jurors without cause, commencing with the complainant and alternating until each has exercised as many challenges as they wish, not to exceed three. As a juror is excused, the Clerk shall draw the name of another juror to take their place, and the parties will have an opportunity to examine such juror as to their fairness and impartiality. [Ord. 81, amended, 1/6/2023; Ord. 63, renumbered, 12/6/2019; Rule mod. dated 8/2018 dated 8/2018; Ord. 48 § 14.3, amended, 1/6/2017; Ord. 26, amended, 4/1/2012; Ord. 19, amended, 10/22/2008. Formerly 2.10.510.]