Complete the jury questionnaire Please Note: You will need to keep the summons postcard to bring with you on your jury service date. Contempt is rarer in real life than in TV courtrooms, so many prosecutors have never handled such a case.Here's a primer on this procedure-heavy piece of law. With a view inside civil and criminal trial and appellate courts in the State of New York. 2.01 Cautionary Instruction Before Recess. In most communities in America, Black people and people of color are significantly underrepresented in the jury pools from which jurors are selected. A party requesting a civil jury trial shall file a written request with the Court in which the case is filed not later than the 14th day before trial. OR. Meet minimum qualifications of Rule 2.02, and. Eight jury trials, including at least four felony jury trials as lead counsel. (a) Cases initiated in the court.