SECTION 2. CHALLENGES Art. 795. Time for challenges; method; peremptory challenges based on race or gender; restrictions A. A juror shall not be challenged for cause after having been temporarily accepted pursuant to Article 788(A) unless the challenging party shows that the cause was not known to him prior to that time. B.(1) Peremptory challenges […]
Art. 796. Removal of juror after swearing If it is discovered after a juror has been accepted and sworn, that he is incompetent to serve, the court may, at any time before the first witness is sworn, order the juror removed and the panel completed in the ordinary course.
Art. 797. Challenge for cause The state or the defendant may challenge a juror for cause on the ground that: (1) The juror lacks a qualification required by law; (2) The juror is not impartial, whatever the cause of his partiality. An opinion or impression as to the guilt or innocence of the defendant shall […]
Art. 798. Causes for challenge by the state It is good cause for challenge on the part of the state, but not on the part of the defendant, that: (1) The juror is biased against the enforcement of the statute charged to have been violated, or is of the fixed opinion that the statute is […]
Art. 799. Number of peremptory challenges In trials of offenses punishable by death or necessarily by imprisonment at hard labor, each defendant shall have twelve peremptory challenges, and the state twelve for each defendant. In all other cases, each defendant shall have six peremptory challenges, and the state six for each defendant. Acts 1983, No. […]
Art. 799.1. Challenges; use of all available challenges Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, and specifically notwithstanding the provisions of Article 788, in the jury selection process, the state and the defendant may exercise all peremptory challenges available to each side, respectively, prior to the full complement of jurors being seated and […]
