Jury pool

Jury pool : The group of prospective qualified jurors appearing for assignment to trial jury panels.
Jury summons : The papers sent to potential jurors that require their attendance in court for possible service on a jury.

" The initial judge was replaced, and the new judge changed the venue, as well as the jury pool, citing contamination of the jury pool by the media coverage. The new venue was a new courthouse in Simi Valley in neighboring Ventura County.

A calculation used to analyze a claim that a jury pool did not represent a fair cross-section of the community. Calculated by subtracting the percentage of a group in the jury pool from the percentage of that group in the general population.

peremptory challenge - Opportunity during "voire dire" (jury selection) in which a party to a lawsuit may dismiss a member of the jury pool without cause.
Perjury - The criminal offense of making a false statement under oath.

Change of Venue - Moving a lawsuit or criminal trial to another place for trial. Venue may be changed when a cases has received so much local publicity as to create a likelihood of bias in the jury pool.

See also: Jury, Force, Order, State, Information