ABSTRACT
Jury management is the process of controlling and monitoring the operation of the jury system, from the selection of the names of citizens as potential jurors, through the qualifying and summoning of these persons for consideration as trial jurors. Jurors usually require special facilities, including isolated and secure deliberation rooms and assembly rooms where prospective jurors report and wait for juror selection or voir dire. The emergence of jury management is due in part to two independent and sometimes conflicting goals: representativeness and efficiency. Gradually, the emphasis of jury management shifted from the area of efficient juror utilization to the possibility of controlling unnecessary costs for providing jurors. The solution often provided by jury management to offset these last minute changes in the court schedule is to have prospective jurors call the court the evening before or the morning of reporting to determine whether or not to report.
