Judges and Judiciary
May 5, 2023
Clogged courts are empaneling limited-English-speaking jurors, despite what the law requires
Code of Civil Procedure Section 203(a)(6) states: All persons are eligible and qualified to be prospective trial jurors except the following: Persons who are not possessed of sufficient knowledge of the English language. More and more frequently, judges are ignoring the importance of this requirement.
Patrick S. Nolan
Partner
DeWitt Algorri + Algorri, LLP
25 East Union St
Pasadena , CA 91103
Phone: (626) 568-4000
Fax: (626) 584-3980
Email: Patrick@daalaw.com
UCLA SOL; Los Angeles CA
GUEST COLUMN
The post-Covid urgency to ease the backlog of cases through the overloaded trial courts is frequently resulting in jury trials with unqualified jurors. One troublesome flaw that could be easily addressed lies in those jurors who commendably express their concern to judges about their English language limitations, but are then falsely assured that their concerns are unwarranted. Trial attorneys are then forced with...
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