Section 38-6-4 – Per diem and mileage for witnesses.
A. Witnesses shall be allowed no fees for services, but shall receive per diem expense and mileage at the rate specified for nonsalaried public officers as provided in the Per Diem and Mileage Act [10-8-1 to 10-8-8 NMSA 1978] for that time in which attendance is required, with certification of the clerk of the court. […]
Section 38-5-12 – Petit jury panels; number to be qualified; period of service; time for summoning.
A. The judge shall determine the number of jurors to be summoned for service, the date and time for the appearance of jurors for qualification, the number of jurors to be qualified to provide panels of jurors for trial service and the size of trial jury panels. Procedures such as the use of alternate jury […]
Section 38-5-13 – Drawing and qualifying trial jury.
The district court of each county shall maintain a list of the names of the jurors duly empaneled and present for the trial of a case. The judge shall cause the names to be randomly selected until sufficient names have been drawn to provide the number of jurors required for the trial. The name and […]
Section 38-5-14 – Exercising challenges to jurors.
The court shall permit the parties to a case to express in the record of trial any challenge to a juror for good cause. The court shall rule upon the challenge and may excuse any juror for good cause. Challenges for good cause and peremptory challenges shall be made outside the hearing of the jury. […]
Section 38-5-15 – Mileage and compensation for jurors.
Persons summoned for jury service and jurors shall be reimbursed for travel in excess of forty miles round trip from their place of actual residence to the courthouse when their attendance is ordered at the rate allowed public officers and employees per mile of necessary travel. Persons summoned for jury service and jurors shall be […]
Section 38-5-16 – Challenge to jury array.
Any party to a civil action or defendant in a criminal action, at the opening of trial and before the empaneling of the jury is commenced, by motion to quash the jury array, may challenge the jury panel on the ground that the members thereof were not selected substantially in accordance with law. If the […]
Section 38-5-17 – [Verdict by ten or more jurors; polling jury.]
In civil causes when the jury, or as many as ten of them, have agreed upon a verdict, they must be conducted into court, their names called by the clerk, and the verdict rendered by their foreman; the verdict must be in writing, signed by the foreman, and must be read by the clerk to […]
Section 38-5-18 – Employer prohibited from penalizing employee for jury service.
A. An employer shall not deprive an employee of employment or threaten or otherwise coerce the employee because the employee receives a summons for jury service, responds to the summons, serves as a juror or attends court for prospective jury service. B. An employer shall not require or request an employee to use annual, vacation […]
Section 38-5-3 – Source for juror selection.
A. Each county clerk shall make available to the secretary of state a database of registered voters of the clerk’s county. The secretary of state shall preserve and make available to the department of information technology, by electronic media, a database of New Mexico registered voters, by county, which shall be updated every six months. […]
Section 38-5-3.1 – Repealed.
ANNOTATIONS Repeals. — Laws 1989, ch. 366, § 2 repealed 38-5-3.1 NMSA 1978, as enacted by Laws 1983, ch. 107, § 1, relating to the juror selection pilot program in the thirteenth judicial district, effective June 16, 1989.