Frequently Asked Questions

The Age Limit that allows your name to be removed from the Jury List starts at 70.

Fill out the Jury Questionnaire Card that is attached to your Jury Summons. Provide a copy of your Driver’s License, Personal ID, or any documentation that includes your date of birth. When your Jury Questionnaire Card/documentation is received, you will be contacted.

Fill out Jury Questionnaire Card that is attached to your Jury Summons. Include your new Primary Address on Line #2 of Jury Questionnaire Card. You will be contacted when your Jury Questionnaire card is received.

Fill out the Jury Questionnaire Card that is attached to your Jury Summons. Provide a copy of your Student ID or Class Schedule. You will be contacted when your Jury Questionnaire Card and documentation have been received.

Fill out the Jury Questionnaire Card that is attached to your Jury Summons. Provide a letter/note from your Doctor or any Medical Documentation that you have. You will be contacted when your Jury Questionnaire and documentation have been received.

A Juror is ineligible to serve if the Juror is not a resident of Blount County, has a Felony Charge, has a letter/note from a licensed doctor that request for the Juror’s name to be removed, or is not a U.S Citizen.

All Jurors are allowed only one Postponement request per Jury Service. A Juror’s Jury Service can be postponed up to one full year. Fill out Jury Questionnaire Card that is attached to your Jury Summons. On the back of the Jury Questionnaire Card, under Postponement of Service, provide a month that you will be available for jury service. You will be contacted and provided with your new Jury Summons date.

If you need one more Postponement then you will need to provide documentation and a letter explaining the reasoning behind the second Postponement request. You will also need to provide a month that you can better serve on a jury. You will be contacted as soon as your Jury Questionnaire/documentation is received and an alternative date given to you if possible. Otherwise, you will need to appear on the summons date, before the judge, to asked to be excused.

You can be excused if you had already completed your Jury Service within the past two years. Fill out your Jury Questionnaire Card which is attached to your Jury Summons and include the date of your previous Jury Summons on Line #18 of the Jury Questionnaire Card. Return the card to our office and you will be contacted regarding your service.

The best that I can do is set you up with a Postponement. Fill out Jury Questionnaire Card, attached to your Jury Summons. On back of Jury Questionnaire Card, under Postponement of Service, provide a month that you will be available for. I will contact and provide you with your new Jury Summons date.

If you have a case pending in Circuit Court then you cannot serve until the pending case is over. However if you know someone that has a pending case, family member or friend, then you are still able to serve unless if you are a part of their case.

If you have received a Jury Summons for another Juror then you will need to place all the Jury Information back in the envelope, not the spare envelope that was included with the Jury Summons. Place the envelope back in your mail box and the Mail Service will pick it up and bring it back to me and I will take care of that Juror.

Fill out Jury Questionnaire Card, attached to your Jury Summons. Include either a handwritten/typed letter explaining your situation. I will call you with a decision.

Fill out Jury Questionnaire Card, attached to your Jury Summons. Include either a handwritten/typed letter explaining your situation. I will call you with a decision.

Fill out Jury Questionnaire Card, attached to your Jury Summons. On Line #19 provide us with the charged and where the charge was from. I will contact you when I received your Jury Questionnaire Card.

The requirements are that your employer must employ less than five people or that you work part time. If you just started a job with the employer less than six months then we can set you up with a Postponement, if you have not used one already.

Your employer must provide a Juror’s usual compensation for the time the juror actually spends serving and traveling to and from Jury Duty. I can provide copies of laws explaining compensating employers for Jury Service. Your employer is not required to compensate you if your employer employs less than five people, work part time, or if you are employed on a temporary basis for less than six months.

Fill out Jury Questionnaire Card, attached to your Jury Summons. Include either a handwritten/typed letter from your employer explaining your situation and why it would cause a Work Hardship. I will call you with a decision.

Fill out Jury Questionnaire Card, attached to your Jury Summons. Include either a copy of your Business License or the first page of your latest Tax Return. I will call you with a decision.

Not having transportation will not excuse you from your Jury Service.

We do respect all religious views; however this will not excuse you from your Jury Service. Only the Judge is allowed to excuse you from your Jury Service.

Only the Judge and the Attorneys are allowed to excuse you from your Jury Service due to not being able to read, write, speak, or understand well.

Only the Judge and the Attorneys are allowed to excuse you for knowing a Judge, attorney, defendant, officer, or clerk.

Only the Judge and the Attorneys are allowed to excuse you for working in the justice system as an officer, judge, attorney, or clerk.

If your employer employs more than 5 employees and you work full time then you will not be eligible to be excused due to a Work Hardship. A Juror who works the night shift or the hours immediately preceding the hours court is normally held the employee shall be excused from employment for the shift immediately preceding the employee’s service.