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Clarke, Oconee residents to receive jury summons in March as trials resume
Residents of Clarke and Oconee counties will soon receive summons for jury duty in late March.
Superior Court Judge Eric Norris, chief judge of the Western Judicial Circuit, announced Wednesday that jury trials will resume, with the Supreme Court of Georgia expected to approve the resumption of trials statewide next month.
“We’ll summon more people than normal to ensure we’ll have the prerequisite number of people to sit on the juries,” Norris said. “We’ve had some folks out there (in jail) for at least a year who were ready for trial in March last year when everything shut down.