A proposal that requires judges to begin the voir dire examination of jurors has been changed to allow for the judge’s presence to be waived by the agreement of the court and counsel.
The state Supreme Court’s Civil Procedural Rules Committee voted last week to advance proposed amendments to Civil Procedural Rule 220.1, which would standardize the voir dire process for selecting jurors in civil cases, according to Huntingdon County Common Pleas Judge Stewart L. Kurtz, chair of the committee.
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