The New Jersey Supreme Court has mandated changes to jury selection procedures, even after finding that criticism of the court's partially remote selection process during the pandemic did not warrant reversal of a criminal conviction.

Court managers must keep records of excusal and deferral actions for prospective jurors, and have to tally up jurors' racial identity, ethnicity and gender, the justices said Monday in a 7-0 ruling in State v. Dangcil. But the court declined to overturn the domestic violence conviction of Wildemar Dangcil despite complaints that his jury was not a cross section of the community and that he was not allowed to be present for juror excusals and deferrals before voir dire.