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D.C. Super. Ct. Civ. R. 47
Selecting Jurors
(a) EXAMINING JURORS. The court may permit the parties or their attorneys to
examine prospective jurors or may itself do so. If the court examines the jurors, it must
permit the parties or their attorneys to make any further inquiry it considers proper, or
must itself ask any of their additional questions it considers proper.
(b) PEREMPTORY CHALLENGES. The court must allow each party to exercise 3
peremptory challenges. Several defendants or several plaintiffs may be considered as a
single party for the purposes of making challenges, or the court may allow additional
peremptory challenges and permit them to be exercised separately or jointly. All
challenges for cause or favor, whether to the array or panel or to individual jurors, must
be determined by the court.
(c) EXCUSING A JUROR. During trial or deliberation, the court may excuse a juror for
good cause.
History
COMMENT TO 2017 AMENDMENTS This rule is substantially similar to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 47, as amended in 2007, except that section (b) includes language from 28 U.S.C. § 1870 instead of just a reference to the statute. COMMENT Identical to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 47.
Provenance
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- dccourts.gov
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- 2026-09-14
- Edition
- 2026-09-14
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