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556 N. McDonough Street
Decatur, Georgia 30030
No one is exempt and/or deferred from jury service because of their job, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, or economic status.
Upon completion of the proper affidavit, certain exemptions and deferrals are allowed. All affidavits must be notarized (Jury Management offers this service free of charge to jurors). The categories for exemption and/or deferral from jury service are listed below. Please click on the hyperlinks for more information.
If you have been convicted of a felony and have not had your civil rights restored, you are not eligible to serve jury duty; however, you must complete a felony affidavit. The affidavit must be notarized. The Jury Management Office provides this service free of charge for jurors.
Once you have completed the form and had it notarized, please email it to info@dekalbjury.com in either .pdf or .jpg format, indicating your Participant Number in the Subject Header Line.
Your right to serve as a juror is not automatically restored upon release from prison and/or parole. You must apply to the Georgia Department of Pardons and Paroles to have the right to serve jury duty restored. https://pap.georgia.gov/parole-consideration/pardons-restoration-rights
If your conviction was under Georgia’s First Offender Act and you successfully completed probation, you are eligible to serve.
Anyone who is permanently mentally or physically disabled shall be permanently excused upon presentation of a doctor’s affidavit.
Persons seventy (70) years of age or older shall be permanently excused upon request and presentation of an appropriate affidavit.
If you are a full-time student, you may be excused from jury service for one year upon providing a Verification of Enrollment of your status as a full-time student on your date of service. You may obtain your Verification of Enrollment by contacting your school’s Registrar’s Office or, in some cases, your school may have it available in your student account. Your Verification of Enrollment must show that your date of service falls within the term or semester for which you are enrolled, so please verify the information.
Please note we cannot accept expired Verifications of Enrollment for previous terms, student account information, transcripts, contracts to attend school, or class schedules – only a Verification of Enrollment for the term during which you are summoned for jury duty may be presented for excusal from jury service.
Once you have your Verification of Enrollment, please email it in .jpg or .pdf format to the Jury Management Office at info@dekalbjury.com.
Persons who are the primary caregiver of a child six (6) years of age or younger and have no reasonably available alternative child care shall be excused or deferred upon presentation of an appropriate affidavit. Please see the qualifications below. The affidavit must be notarized. Jury Management provides this service free of charge.
For those persons who are the primary caregiver of a child six (6) years of age or younger, please note that:
If you do not qualify for a Childcare Affidavit and the day to which you have been assigned proves a hardship for you to get alternative childcare, or you have a special needs child, please contact the Jury Management Office at 404-371-2022 and press 0. Telephone hours are Monday through Friday from 10:30 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.
If you have a newborn or are exclusively breastfeeding, rather than using the Childcare Affidavit, please have your doctor or your child’s pediatrician fill out the medical affidavit attached to your jury summons. The affidavit must be notarized. Jury Management provides this service free of charge.
Any person who is a primary unpaid caregiver of a person over the age of six (6),
Persons who are the primary teacher in a home study program and have no reasonably available alternative for child or children in the home study program shall be excused or deferred upon presentation of an appropriate affidavit.
A Home Study Program Declaration of Intent from the Georgia Department of Education must accompany the affidavit.
Any service member on ordered military duty, or the spouse of any such service member on active military duty, may be excused or deferred upon request and presentation of an appropriate affidavit.
Agency-specific information:
A criminal case in the DeKalb Superior Court (DeKalb Judicial Circuit) is not assigned to a specific Judge until the District Attorney makes a decision to bring charges in the case.
Charges in a criminal case in Superior Court proceed by way of an indictment returned by the Grand Jury or by way of an accusation drawn by the District Attorney. When the indictment or accusation is filed with the Clerk of Superior Court, the case is then assigned to one of ten Superior Court Judges.
Prior to a case being filed, the case is “unindicted” and identified with a “D” number. It is not assigned to a specific Superior Court Judge.
All questions regarding “D” number cases should therefore be directed to the District Attorney’s office.
