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New Hampshire · Through 2025 regular legislative session, or December 2025

RSA 500-A:9: Exemption From Jury Service.

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  1. Title LI: COURTS
  2. Chapter 500-A: JURORS

No qualified prospective juror is exempt from jury service, except under the following circumstances:

I. [Repealed.]

II. If any person at the age of 70 years or more is selected as a juror he or she may, at his or her discretion, inform the court prior to the convening of court that he or she does not wish to act as a juror. He or she shall then be discharged, and another juror may be drawn in his or her place.

III. If any member of the general court or delegate to a constitutional convention is selected as a juror when the general court or a constitutional convention is in session, he or she may inform the court that he or she does not wish to act as a juror.

IV. No person shall serve as a petit juror at a term of court at which he or she has a case pending which may be tried by the jury at that time.

V, VI. [Repealed.]

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