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Chapter 3 (Rules 3.00.00 to 3.00.09): a common jury panel within the South Lake Tahoe area or the Western Slope area, venire persons summoned from the supervisorial district proximate to the court, a countywide venire in the interest of justice, the prospective juror's option of selecting the South Lake Tahoe or Placerville Session (3.00.01); the demand for a jury in civil actions and payment of jury fees under Code of Civil Procedure section 631 (3.00.02); jury service a responsibility of citizenship (3.00.03); requests to be excused for undue hardship in writing or on the record (3.00.04); the grounds of undue hardship - no transportation, travel exceeding one and one-half hours, an extreme financial burden, risk to property, a physical or mental disability (verification except where the person is aged 70 years or older), services immediately needed for the protection of the public health and safety, the care of another (3.00.05); an excuse on request for 1 year after jury service in the immediately preceding 12 months - the rule does not apply to the South Lake Tahoe jury service requirement (3.00.06); the persons qualified to serve as jurors (3.00.07); the persons disqualified from jury service, a peace officer as defined in Penal Code sections 830.1 and 830.2(a) exempt (3.00.08); the jury commissioner or the court empowered upon written request to excuse for undue hardship and to postpone jury service for a period not to exceed 90 days (3.00.09).
California > Third Appellate District > El Dorado County > Superior Court of California, County of El Dorado
3.00.00 JURIES AND JURY SERVICE (Effective January 1, 1994) 3.00.01 COMMON JURY PANEL A. Any court in either the South Lake Tahoe area or the Western Slope area may use a jury panel summoned by another court in the same area. B. Venire persons for trial juries in El Dorado County shall be summoned from the supervisorial district which is geographically proximate to the court within which the trial shall be held, as well as from residents of other immediately adjacent supervisorial districts, or portions thereof, as may be determined by the jury commissioner. In the interest of justice, the court may order a countywide venire. C. When a countywide venire is utilized, a prospective juror shall have the option of selecting whether he or she wishes to serve in the South Lake Tahoe or Placerville Session of court. Such selection shall, in the ordinary case, be determined by the mileage between the Juror’s residence and the City of Placerville or the City of South Lake Tahoe. (Revised, January 1, 1994) 3.00.02 DEMAND FOR JURY IN CIVIL ACTION; PAYMENT OF FEES Demand for jury in civil actions and payment of jury fees shall be pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 631, et seq. (Revised July 1, 2013) 3.00.03 DUTY OF CITIZENSHIP Jury service, unless excused by law, is a responsibility of citizenship. The court and its staff should employ all necessary and appropriate means to assure that citizens fulfill this important civic responsibility. (Effective January 1, 1994) 3.00.04 REQUESTS TO BE EXCUSED All requests to be excused from jury service that are granted for undue hardship shall be in writing from the prospective juror or placed on the court’s record. The prospective juror shall support the request with facts specifying the hardship and a statement why the circumstances constituting the undue hardship cannot be avoided by deferring the prospective juror’s service. (Effective January 1, 1994) 3.00.05 GROUNDS CONSTITUTING UNDUE HARDSHIP A. An excuse on the ground of undue hardship may be granted for any of the following reasons: (1) The prospective juror has no reasonably available means of public or private transportation; (2) The prospective juror must travel a distance exceeding one and one-half hours from the prospective juror’s home; (3) The prospective juror will bear an extreme financial burden; B. In determining whether to excuse the prospective juror, consideration should be given to: (1) The source of the prospective juror’s household income; (2) The availability and extent of income reimbursement; (3) The expected length of service; and (4) Whether service can reasonably be expected to compromise that person’s ability to support himself or herself or his or her dependents, or so disrupt the economic stability of any individual as to be against the interests of justice. C. The prospective juror will bear an undue risk of material injury to or destruction of property of the prospective juror, where it is not feasible to make alternative arrangements to alleviate the risk. In determining whether to excuse the prospective juror, consideration shall be given to: (1) The nature of the property; (2) The source and duration of the risk; (3) The probability that the risk will be realized; (4) The reason why alternative arrangements to protect the property cannot be made; and (5) Whether material injury to or destruction of the property will so disrupt the economic stability of any individual as to be against the interests of justice. D. The prospective juror has a physical or mental disability or impairment, not affecting that person’s competence to act as a juror, which would expose the potential juror to undue risk of mental or physical harm. In an individual case, except where the person is aged 70 years or older, the prospective juror must furnish verification or a method of verification of the disability or impairment, its probable duration, and the particular reasons for the person’s inability to serve as a juror. E. The prospective juror’s services are immediately needed for the protection of the public health and safety, and it is not feasible to make alternative arrangements to relieve the person of these responsibilities during the period of service as a juror without substantially reducing essential public services. F. The prospective juror has a personal obligation to provide actual and necessary care to another, including sick, aged, or infirm dependents, or a child who requires the prospective juror’s personal care and attention, and no comparable substitute care is either available or practical without imposing an undue economic hardship on the prospective juror or the person cared for. Where the request to be excused is based on care provided to a sick, disabled, or infirm person, the prospective juror may be required to furnish verification or a method of verification that the person being cared for is in need of regular and personal care. (Revised January 1, 2012) 3.00.06 PRIOR JURY SERVICE A prospective juror who served on a grand or trial jury or was summoned and appeared for jury service in any state or federal court during the immediately preceding 12 months, shall be excused from jury service on request for a period of 1 year from the date of that jury service. This rule does not apply to the South Lake Tahoe jury service requirement where a juror may be called to appear more than one time within a one-year period. (Revised July 1, 2012) 3.00.07 PERSONS QUALIFIED TO SERVE AS JURORS The following persons are qualified to serve as jurors: A. A citizen of the United States; B. At least 18 years of age; C. A resident of the County of El Dorado; and D. Able to understand, read, and speak the English language. (Effective January 1, 1994) 3.00.08 PERSONS DISQUALIFIED FROM JURY SERVICE The following persons are disqualified from jury service: A. Persons who do not possess the above qualifications; B. Have been convicted of a felony and whose civil rights have not been restored, malfeasance in office or other high crime; C. Persons presently serving as a Grand Juror in any state or federal court; D. A person is exempt from jury service, if currently a peace officer as defined in Penal Code sections 830.1 and 830.2(a). (Effective January 1, 1994) 3.00.09 REQUEST FOR A PROSPECTIVE JUROR TO BE EXCUSED OR DEFERRED A. Upon written request, the jury commissioner or the court is empowered to excuse from jury service persons for which jury service would entail an undue hardship as defined in rule 3.00.05. B. Upon written request, the jury commissioner or the court is empowered to postpone the jury service of a person for a period not to exceed 90 days. C. Upon written request, the jury commissioner or court is empowered to postpone any other legitimate temporary hardship not expressly defined on the summons itself, in the opinion of the jury commissioner that would justify the temporary deferment of jury service. (Revised July 1, 2012)
3.00.00 JURIES AND JURY SERVICE (Effective January 1, 1994) 3.00.01 COMMON JURY PANEL A. Any court in either the South Lake Tahoe area or the Western Slope area may use a jury panel summoned by another court in the same area. B. Venire persons for trial juries in El Dorado County shall be summoned from the supervisorial district which is geographically proximate to the court within which the trial
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-10 (California T4 El Dorado build 2026-10-10) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-el-dorado/docs/local-rules/local-rules.pdf (the court's rule book, its cover “Local Rules Revision: January 1, 2026” and its second page “LOCAL RULES FOR THE SUPERIOR COURT COUNTY OF EL DORADO Effective January 1, 2026”, as fetched 2026-10-10; 1813135 bytes, sha256 aba154e6450f0a7487a2f0a96e9da05110a8ab495e94410b87f54b88cfd6dd7a; 186 pages; this chapter PDF pages 24 to 27) with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow) and its strike-out: the rules (PDF pages 11 to 147, printed 1 to 137) composed as one text, from “1.00.00 SCOPE OF RULES FOR THE SUPERIOR COURT” to the last history note of Chapter 12, and cut at the twelve chapter headings, each matched once as a whole line (a chapter may begin mid-page: Chapters 6 and 7 both begin on PDF page 39); each page's running header (“LOCAL RULES – SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF EL DORADO”) and its two footer lines (the printed page number and “Revised January 1, 2026”) removed as chrome (411 lines); lines reflowed into the rules' paragraphs, each rule's number set with its title as one line (“2.00.08 LOCATION FOR FILING AND COURT SESSIONS”) and each history note on a line of its own; the strike report (review/strike-report-2026-10-10.txt) finds no struck run; 8 whitespace-only fixes (build/book-fixes.json: four cross-references the reflow broke before a label or a rule number - Rules 2.00.07, 2.01.00, 10.09.02 and 11.00.13 - joined; Rule 7.16.00's heading and a sentence of Rule 11.00.19 that a “SECTION” line start split, joined; Rule 2.01.00's two complaint addresses set line by line as printed) and 1 same-character fix (build/book-captions.json: the header row of Rule 8.19.02's debts table set cell by cell); the vertical-gap, short-line, page-break, fragment and row audits (custody file book_extra_audits.py; review/book-extra-audits-2026-10-10.txt) list candidates read one by one (build/book_fixes.py); proof 1 (whitespace-only) and proof 2 (same character multiset as the text layer minus chrome) pass. The cover, the effective-date page, the table of contents, the List of Effective/Revised Dates, the Alphabetical Index of Rules and the lists of local forms (PDF pages 1 to 10 and 148 to 186) belong to no card.
Division XI: information forms for data processing (Rule 11.2); required action - action taken on all calendared cases and a future date always set (Rule 11.19); and pro tem judges - an attorney named as a plaintiff in a civil or small claims case may not sit as a judge pro-tem during the case or within six months following its resolution, nor one named as a defendant in two or more such cases (Rule 11.22). Rules 11.1, 11.3 to 11.5, 11.7 to 11.18, 11.20 and 11.21 are repealed, and Rule 11.6 (voluntary arbitration; see Local Rule 10.2) was repealed and renumbered.
Duval County's indigent-defense and magistration rules under the Texas Fair Defense Act (S.B. 7): who may be booked into the county jail and on what paper; arrest-case numbering; presentment to a magistrate within 48 hours (art. 15.16); the magistrate's warnings, counsel inquiry, interpreter duty, indigence determination and appointment of counsel within 24 hours of a request; the alternative appointment plan under art. 26.04(g)-(h) with annual applications, seven attorney categories (capital, first and second degree, third degree/state jail/misdemeanor, competency, appeals, post-conviction, extradition), CLE and experience standards, random rotation within each category, written acceptance within 48 hours, first contact by the end of the next working day, replacement and suspension of counsel, fee applications within five days of completing services and the compensation attachment ($500 pleas; $175/$150 hourly; $1,400 per jury-trial day; appellate caps); bail schedules by offense class with a personal bond office (fee $20 or 3%), pre-trial supervision and revocation hearings within two working days; arraignment settings and notice; repeal of conflicting rules.