Local Civil Rule 47
                                    JURORS


   (a) Voir Dire.  The trial judge may examine the prospective juror touching
their qualification to act as fair and impartial jurors in the case before him
or her; provided that thereafter the trial judge shall give leave to respective
counsel to ask the jurors such supplementary questions as may be deemed by the
trial judge proper and necessary.  The voir dire examination of prospective
jurors shall, as nearly as possible, be limited to those matters having a
reasonably direct bearing on prejudice or qualifications and shall not be used
by opposing counsel as a means of arguing or trying their case on voir dire.
The "struck method" of voir dire examination is allowed.  That is, the parties
may direct questions to individual jurors or to the panel or to portions
thereof, in the discretion of the examiner.

   (e) Challenge.

   (9) Peremptory Challenges.  All peremptory challenges allowed by law shall
be exercised in the following manner:

The bailiff will deliver to counsel for the plaintiff and counsel for the
defendant, in turn, a prepared form upon which each counsel shall endorse the
name of the challenged juror in the space designated, or his acceptance of the
jury as constituted.  The bailiff will then exhibit this form after each
challenge to the opposing counsel, and the Court.  After all challenges have
been exhausted, the Court will excuse those jurors who have been challenged and
will seat the jury as finally selected.

   A waiver by a party indicates an acceptance by that party of all jurors
seated up to that point.

   The purpose of this rule is to preserve the secrecy of peremptory challenges
and all parties and their counsel shall conduct themselves to that end.  This
procedure may be modified if appropriate.

   (k) Selection of Jurors.  The Benton County Superior Court and the Franklin
County Superior Court shall employ a properly programmed electronic data
processing system or device to make random selection of jurors as required by
RCW 2.36.060.093.  It is determined that fair and random selection may be
achieved without division of the county into three (3) or more jury
districts.  During the month of July of each year, a master jury list shall be
selected by an unrestricted random sample in accordance with RCW 2.36.055.


[Adopted Effective April 1, 1986, September 1, 2011]