Texas Constitution and United States Constitution guarantee the right to a trial by jury. This offers an average citizen an opportunity to influence over fundamental matters of justice. Jurors need to be fair, impartial and willing to make decisions that are not based on personal feelings.
The process for selecting a prospective jurors is made by a list of potential jurors and people eligible to be on the list are those individuals who are registered to vote or posses a driver's licence from Texas or have a Texas Identification Card. Citizens are randomly selected. Also persons who are eligible to be a juror need to be at least 18 years old, a legal citizen of the US, be able to read and write, not have been convicted in the past.
