Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 22-1-101 (2024)
Obligation to serve - Qualifications
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It is policy of this state that all qualified citizens have an obligation to serve on petit juries or grand juries when summoned by the courts of this state, unless excused. Every person eighteen (18) years of age, being a citizen of the United States, and a resident of this state, and of the county in which the person may be summoned for jury service for a period of twelve (12) months next preceding the date of the summons, is legally qualified to act as a grand or petit juror, if not otherwise incompetent under the express provisions of this title.
Acts 2008, ch. 1159, § 1.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 11
cases, 1981–2019 · leading case: Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005).
Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005). “Codified Laws § 16-13-10 (2004) Tennessee 18 Tenn. Code Ann. § 22-1-101 (1994) Texas 18 Tex.”
State v. Hester, 324 S.W.3d 1 (Tenn. 2010). “Tenn.Code Ann. § 22-1-101 (2009). The purposeful wholesale exclusion of juveniles, In re J.”
Thompson v. Oklahoma, 487 U.S. 815 (1988). “Tenn. Code Ann. § 22-1-101 (1980) Tex. Tex.”
Woodson v. Porter Brown Limestone Co., 916 S.W.2d 896 (Tenn. 1996). “Tenn.Code Ann. § 22-1-101 (1994 Repl.). To allow a juror to decide whether he or she complies with the statutory requirement would potentially destroy the jury system.”
State v. Beal, 614 S.W.2d 77 (Tenn. Crim. App. 1981). “This provision was repealed by Acts 1979, ch. 399, § 1, and replaced by Tennessee Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(g).”
James Farmer v. State of Florida, 268 So. 3d 1009 (Fla. 1st DCA 2019). “Codified Laws § 16-13-10 (2018); Tenn. Code Ann. § 22-1-101 (West 2018); Tex.”
Larry E. Parrish, P. C. v. Nancy J. Strong, No. M2015-02495-COA-R9-CV, 2016 WL 5888935 (Tenn. Ct. App. Oct. 7, 2016). “Strong’s] oral motion to reconvene the current jury, or in the alternative, empanel a different jury to assess the proper amount of punitive damages to be awarded against [Appellee], this Court rules that, pursuant to T.C.A. § 22-1-101, this Court does not have jurisdiction to…”
State of Tennessee v. Nelson Aguilar Gomez, No. M2008-02737-CCA-R3-CD (Tenn. Crim. App. Sept. 10, 2010). “Tennessee Code Annotated section 22-1-101 states that “[e]very person eighteen (18) years of age, being a citizen of the United States, and a resident of this state, and of the county in which the person may be summoned for jury service for a period of twelve (12) months next…”
Stace Lee Thompson v. City of Lavergne, No. M2003-02924-COA-R3-CV, 2005 WL 3076887 (Tenn. Ct. App. Nov. 16, 2005). “The statutes relating to the eligibility for jury service are found in Tennessee Code Annotated sections 22-1-101 through 22-1-105. Tennessee Code Annotated section 22-1-101 contains the basic age and residency requirements.”
Larry E. Parrish, P. C. v. Nancy J. Strong, No. M2017-02451-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. Ct. App. Dec. 28, 2018). “The parties agreed “that the trial court had not erred in declining to reconvene the jury that decided the first phase of the bifurcated trial for the purpose of -4- determining the amount of punitive damages in the second phase” because it did not have the power to do so under…”
State v. Lakins, No. 03C01-9703-CR-00085 (Tenn. Crim. App. Mar. 24, 1998). “He argues that Jury Foreperson Bill Powers was not a resident of Claiborne County, Tennessee, as required by Tennessee Code Annotated Section 22-1-101 (1994). Because of this disqualification, the appellant claims that he was convicted by a constitutionally invalid jury.”
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