What basic qualifications does a juror have to meet?

What basic qualifications does a juror have to meet?

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Well, the basic qualifications for getting a jury summons are that you would have to be on the jury rolls. Which means you probably are a registered voter, you have a driver's license. Sometimes they use property tax rolls to choose the people that are called into the jury pool. So that's the basic qualification. If you don't have - if you're not a registered voter, if you don't have a driver's license, if you don't own property and your community uses those ways and you'd still like to serve on a jury, you should go down and see the clerk of courts and make sure your name is on the jury pool list, so you can be called in to serve on a jury. But, in general, the federal guidelines, and for most states the guidelines are: you should be 18 years old to serve on a jury, you should not be a convicted felon or charged presently with a felony, you should understand English, and you should of lived in the area for a year. And then you're qualified to serve on a jury.