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	State of the States - Survey of Jury Improvement Efforts: A Compendium Report The State-of-the-States Survey of Jury Improvement Efforts provides the most comprehensive snapshot of contemporary jury operations and practices in state courts ever conducted. This Compendium Report describes state and local jury improvement efforts, the terms and conditions of local jury operations for 1,396 state court jurisdictions, and in-court jury trial practices in 11,752 jury trials conducted in state and federal courts between 2002 and 2006. Click here to view the full report. Additional information about the National Jury Program, including list of current financial contributors. New publications based on the State-of-the-States datasets: Caseload Highlights Civil Action When All Eyes Are Watching: Trial Characteristics and Practices in Notorious Trials Building a Better Voir Dire *Judicial Nullification? Judicial Compliance and Non-Compliance with Jury Improvement Efforts
National Program to Increase Citizen Participation in Jury Service Through Jury Innovations		The State of the States - Survey of Jury Improvement Efforts: Executive Summary

The Local Court Survey allows you to select a state and view jury survey question responses. The state data is also compared to the total of all state jury survey responses (ie. the national survey figures). Survey topics include:

	survey respondent data
	jury reform efforts in the past 5 years
	jury reform efforts in the past 5 years
	focus of jury reform efforts
	numbers and types of source lists used by courts
	juror fees; length of term of service
	follow-up programs; jury yields
	numbers and types of jury trials
	types of jury technology used by courts
	types of juror information available to attorneys

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The Judge and Attorney Survey allows you to select a state and view jury survey question responses. The state data is also compared to the total of all state jury survey responses (ie. the national survey figures) and federal data. Survey topics include:

	survey respondent data
	legal and evidentiary complexity of trials
	voir dire questioning methods
	length of voir dire; length of jury deliberations
	are jurors permitted to take notes, provided with notepaper/writing utensils/trial notebook
	are jurors permitted to submit questions to witnesses
	when are jurors permitted to discuss evidence
	when are jurors instructed; are they given written instructions
	are jurors given guidance on conducting deliberations
	do alternates deliberate, are jurors sequestered
	notorious or complex trials