Special juries in District Court

§ 13–701. Special juries in District Court (a) In a case, civil or criminal, called for trial in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, in which either party desires a special or struck jury, the clerk shall prepare a list of twenty jurors from the jurors in attendance and furnish the list to each of the parties. Each party or his counsel may strike off the names of four persons from the list, and the persons whose names remain on the list shall thereupon be impaneled and sworn as the petit jury in the case. If either party or his counsel neglects or refuses to strike from the list the number of names authorized by this subsection, the clerk may strike off the names, and the twelve persons whose names remain on the list shall be impaneled as the petit jury in the case. (b) If the proceeding authorized by subsection (a) of this section is not insisted upon by either party (either party may furnish to the clerk a list of the jurors, not exceeding four in number, whom he wishes to be omitted from the panel sworn in the case, and the clerk, in making up the panel, shall omit the jurors to whom objection was so made. (c) This section does not deprive a person of the right to challenge the array or polls of a panel returned, or to have all or any of the jurors examined on their voir dire before the list is prepared to determine their competency to sit in a particular case.