Cal. Rules of Court, rule 2.1033 · Chapter 2. Conduct of Trial
Juror questions
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
A trial judge should allow jurors to submit written questions directed to witnesses. An opportunity must be given to counsel to object to such questions out of the presence of the jury.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 2.1033 adopted effective January 1, 2007.
Advisory Committee Comment
See CACI No. 112 and CALCRIM No. 106. Resources, including a model admonition and a sample form for jurors to use to submit questions to the court, are available in Bench Handbook: Jury Management (CJER, rev. 2006, pp. 60-62).
Source of truth
- Edition
- As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
- Official file
- https://courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index/two/rule2_1033
- Text hash
- sha256 7548320effdc60d01217cbe204f30f0447d3d77f7120c75a3804546e91ad9696
- Composed by
- compose_crc.py 2026-10-22: the Judicial Council's rule pages read paragraph by paragraph; verify_crc.py's second reading of the Council's per-title PDFs finds every paragraph
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