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Rule 642 – Sequestration of Trial Jurors

May 14, 2021 | Criminal Procedure, Pennsylvania

(A) The trial judge may, in the judge’s discretion, order sequestration of trial jurors in the interests of justice.
(B) When sequestration is ordered, each juror, including any alternate, shall be sequestered from the time of acceptance as a juror until discharged.
(C) Nothing is paragraph (B) shall prevent a trial judge from ordering sequestration, or vacating the order of sequestration, at any time during a trial when the interests of justice require.

234 Pa. Code ยง 642

Committee Explanatory Reports:

Final Report explaining the March 1, 2000 reorganization and renumbering of the rules published with the Court’s Order at 30 Pa.B. 1477 (March 18, 2000).