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2018 Georgia Code 15-12-168 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)
O.C.G.A. 15-12-168 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 15-12-168

TITLE 15 COURTS

Section 12. Juries, 15-12-1 through 15-12-172.

ARTICLE 5 TRIAL JURIES

15-12-168. Authority to call alternate jurors.

Whenever in the opinion of a judge of a superior court any felony trial is likely to be a protracted one, immediately after the jury has been impaneled and sworn the court shall direct the calling of one or more additional jurors to be known as "alternate jurors."

(Ga. L. 1957, p. 466, § 1; Ga. L. 1968, p. 1225, § 1; Ga. L. 1976, p. 1043, § 1.)

RESEARCH REFERENCES

C.J.S.

- 50A C.J.S., Juries, §§ 28, 254 et seq., 526 et seq.

ALR.

- Constitutionality and construction of statute or court rule relating to alternate or additional jurors or substitution of jurors during trial, 84 A.L.R.2d 1288; 15 A.L.R.4th 1127; 88 A.L.R.4th 711; 10 A.L.R. Fed. 185; 115 A.L.R. Fed. 381; 119 A.L.R. Fed. 589.

Substitution, under Rule 24c of Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, of alternate juror for regular juror before jury retires to consider verdict in federal criminal case, 115 A.L.R. Fed. 381.

Cases Citing O.C.G.A. § 15-12-168

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Howard v. State, 307 Ga. 12 (Ga. 2019).

Cited 18 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Oct 7, 2019

...31). Georgia’s statute governing the replacement of a juror with an alternate contains no such provision. The decisions cited by Howard therefore are inconsistent with Georgia’s statutory scheme for alternate jurors as laid out in OCGA § 15-12-168 et seq., particularly the provision that the trial court may for good cause substitute an alternate “whether before or after final submission of the case to the jury.” OCGA § 15-12-172....