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They typically go home. In rare cases, such as a major issue widely covered in the media, they are sequestered.
It depends on the nature/seriousness of the case and whether they anticipate extensive press coverage. Jurors are often sequestered in high profile cases to ensure they are shielded from biased news reports.
Randy Oldman wrote:
They typically go home. In rare cases, such as a major issue widely covered in the media, they are sequestered.
This is the correct answer. Counties do not want to pay money for hotels and jurors don't want to be away from their homes and families. A sequestered jury is very very rare.
So here is the real question:
If you are in a sequestered jury, can you go running? I mean, what if you're on some stupid trial like OJ or Zimmerman? You can't run for 6 months? Nice country, requires its citizens to become huge fatties.
that since 1995 the trend has been to drop mandatory sequestering laws. Many states have modified or dropped the overnight requirement seeing them as overly burdensome on both jurors and budget of the court system.
In all states judges still have the option to sequester on a trial by trial basis.
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