2. 67(1)Selection of panel. If a trial by jury is demanded, the magistrate shall notify the clerk of the district court of the time and place of trial. The clerk shall thereupon select by lot 14 names from the district court jury panel. The clerk shall notify these jurors of the time and place for trial.2. 67(2)Challenges. Except where inconsistent with this rule, rule 2.18 shall apply, but no challenge to the panel is allowed.2. 67(3)Completion of panel. If for any reason the panel as chosen by the clerk becomes insufficient to obtain a jury, the magistrate may direct the officer of the court to summon any bystander or others who may be competent, and against whom no sufficient cause of challenge appears, to act as jurors.2. 67(4)Strikes. If, after all challenges and strikes as noted in rule 2.18 have been exercised, the remaining jurors number more than six, the parties, commencing with the defendant, shall continue to strike jurors in order until the panel is reduced to six jurors.2. 67(5)Alternate jurors. No alternate jurors shall be chosen.2. 67(6)Jury of six. When six jurors appear and are accepted, they shall constitute the jury.2. 67(7)Oath of jurors. The magistrate must thereupon administer to them the following oath or affirmation: “You do swear (or, you do solemnly affirm, as the case may be) that you will well and truly try the issue between the state of Iowa and the defendant, and a true verdict give according to the law and evidence.”2. 67(8)Trial. The court shall conduct the trial in the manner of indictable cases in accordance with rule 2.19.2. 67(9)Record. The proceedings upon trial shall not be reported, unless a party provides a reporter at such party’s expense. The magistrate may cause the proceedings upon trial to be reported electronically. If the proceedings are being electronically recorded both parties shall be notified in advance of that recording. If the defendant is indigent and requests that the proceedings upon trial be reported, the judicial magistrate shall cause them to be reported by a reporter, or electronically, at public expense. If the proceedings are not reported electronically, the judicial magistrate shall make minutes of the testimony of each witness and append the exhibits or copies thereof. If the proceedings have been reported electronically the recording shall be retained under the jurisdiction of the magistrate and upon request shall be transcribed only by a person designated by the court under the supervision of the magistrate. The transcription shall be provided anyone requesting it upon payment of actual cost of transcription or to an indigent defendant as herein above provided.
