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§1253
Title 15: COURT PROCEDURE -- CRIMINAL
Part 3: TRIALS
Chapter 203: JURIES
§1255

§1254. Juror's oath or affirmation in cases punishable by imprisonment

The following oath shall be administered to jurors in criminal cases: "You swear, that in all causes committed to you, you will give a true verdict therein, according to the law and evidence given you. So help you God." Any juror, conscientiously scrupulous of taking an oath, may affirm in the mode described in section 1253.   [PL 1979, c. 541, Pt. B, §21 (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1977, c. 114, §27 (RPR). PL 1979, c. 541, §B21 (AMD).
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