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Tuesday at the North Carolina General Assembly - State | Reflector.com
DEAF JURORS: The full House has returned to committee a bill that would make clear state law allows deaf residents to serve on juries. Rep. Rick Glazier, D-Cumberland, the bill's chief proponent, said the law needs to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Glazier said most states already have changed their law and that North Carolina's court system years ago told judges that potential jurors who are deaf should be given interpreters. But Rep. Bill Faison, D-Orange, said the measure should be returned to the committee he leads so that jury procedures can be looked at more closely. Faison and some other lawyers said on the floor two weeks ago they wouldn't choose a deaf person to serve on a jury because the person can't hear inflections in a witness' voice that could determine whether the witness is telling the truth. The motion to send the bill back to committee was approved 65-48.
DEAF JURORS: The full House has returned to committee a bill that would make clear state law allows deaf residents to serve on juries. Rep. Rick Glazier, D-Cumberland, the bill's chief proponent, said the law needs to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Glazier said most states already have changed their law and that North Carolina's court system years ago told judges that potential jurors who are deaf should be given interpreters. But Rep. Bill Faison, D-Orange, said the measure should be returned to the committee he leads so that jury procedures can be looked at more closely. Faison and some other lawyers said on the floor two weeks ago they wouldn't choose a deaf person to serve on a jury because the person can't hear inflections in a witness' voice that could determine whether the witness is telling the truth. The motion to send the bill back to committee was approved 65-48.