O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 15-12-170 (2019)

Oath and duties of alternate jurors; expense allowance

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
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Alternate jurors shall take the same oath as the jurors already selected. They shall be seated near the jury, with equal opportunity for seeing and hearing the proceedings, and shall attend at all times upon the trial with the jury. They shall obey all orders and admonitions of the court to the jury. When the regular jurors are ordered kept together in any case, the alternate jurors shall also be kept in confinement with the regular jurors. Alternate jurors shall receive the same expense allow184 ance as do the regular jurors.

History

(Ga. L. 1957, p. 466, § 3; Ga. L. 1968, p. 1225, § 3; Ga. L. 1974, p. 325, § 6.)

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. - Plea of former jeopardy where jury is discharged because of illness or insanity of juror, 125 ALR 694.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 1984–1988 · leading case: Devier v. State, 323 S.E.2d 150 (Ga. 1984).
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Devier v. State, 323 S.E.2d 150 (Ga. 1984). · cites it 4× “See OCGA § 15-12-170; Patton v. Yount, ___ U.”
David Peek v. Ralph Kemp, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic & Classification Ctr., 784 F.2d 1479 (11th Cir. 1986). “O.C.G.A. § 15-12-170 (1985). It therefore follows that, absent subsequent juror misconduct, the proper time for a defendant to object to the seating of an alternate juror is at the jury selection voir dire.”
Lonchar v. State, 369 S.E.2d 749 (Ga. 1988). · cites it 2× “OCGA § 15-12-170. When the case was presented to the jury for deliberation on the issue of guilt, the alternates were separated from the jury until the jury reached its verdict, as required by OCGA § 15-12-171.”
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