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Wash. Rev. Code § 4.44.120 (2026)

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When the action is called for trial, a panel of potential jurors shall be selected at random from the citizens summoned for jury service who have appeared and have not been excused. A voir dire examination of the panel shall be conducted for the purpose of discovering any basis for challenge for cause and to permit the intelligent exercise of peremptory challenges. Any necessary additions to the panel shall be selected at random from the list of qualified jurors. The jury shall consist of six persons, unless the parties in their written demand for jury demand that the jury be twelve in number or consent to a less number. The parties may consent to a jury less than six in number but not less than three, and such consent shall be entered in the record.
[ 2003 c 406 s 4; 1996 c 40 s 1; 1972 ex.s. c 57 s 3; Code 1881 s 206; 1877 p 43 s 210; 1869 p 51 s 210; 1854 p 164 s 185; RRS s 323.]

Notes:

Rules of court: Cf. CR 48.
Juries, district courts: Chapter 12.12 RCW.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6 cases (4 in the last 5 years), 2018–2025 · leading case: State v. Sassen Van Elsloo, 425 P.3d 807 (Wash. 2018).
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State v. Sassen Van Elsloo, 425 P.3d 807 (Wash. 2018). · cites it 2× “RCW 4.44.120. This opinion refers to "impaneled jurors" as jurors who have been sworn and are seated on the panel while the trial is ongoing and testimony is being heard.”
State Of Washington v. Darcy Racus (Wash. Ct. App. 2018). “RCW 4.44.120 provides that [w]hen the action is called for trial, a panel of potential jurors shall be selected at random from the citizens summoned for jury service who have appeared and have not been excused.”
State Of Washington, V. Robert L. James (Wash. Ct. App. 2023). “RCW 4.44.120. The trial court must excuse a juror for cause “if the juror’s views would preclude or substantially hinder the juror in the performance of [their] duties in accordance with the trial 11 No.”
In Re the Det. of S.P. (Wash. Ct. App. 2024). “” RCW 4.44.120. In a jury panel consisting of six jurors, “when five of the jurors agree upon a verdict, the verdict so agreed upon shall be signed by the presiding juror, and the verdict shall stand as the verdict of the whole jury.”
State v. Bell (Wash. 2025). “” RCW 4.44.120. The voir dire here consisted of two sessions with a recess in between.”
State Of Washington, V. Danny Henry Coleman, Jr (Wash. Ct. App. 2025). “’” State 3 RCW 4.44.120 further provides that a “voir dire examination of the panel shall be conducted for the purpose of discovering any basis for challenge for cause and to permit the intelligent exercise of peremptory challenges.”
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