{"id":"SC-064","kind":"order","level":"court","jurisdiction":"South Carolina","state":"SC","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Chief Justice Donald W. Beatty","authority":"S.C. Const. art. V, § 4","instrument":"Order re Circuit Court Jury Trials (2020-12-03-01)","title":"No circuit-court jury trials to commence after December 4, 2020","dateIssued":"2020-12-03","effective":"2020-12-04","end":"2021-04-05 (jury trials resumed under SC-053)","startDate":"2020-12-04","endDate":"2021-04-05","quarters":["2020Q4","2021Q1"],"types":["CRT"],"addressees":["circuit courts statewide","jurors","litigants"],"clause":"in light of the ongoing increase in COVID-19 cases throughout South Carolina... IT IS ORDERED that the circuit courts statewide shall not commence any jury trials after December 4, 2020.... This Order shall remain in effect until amended or rescinded by Order of the Chief Justice. Any Order allowing the resumption of jury trials will be issued at least three weeks prior to the affected date","enforcement":"Administrative order; Dec. 9, 2020 order suspended selection of new grand jurors","functions":["CT courts","PJ litigation","WF jurors"],"notes":"The winter 2020-21 re-tightening in South Carolina came from the Judicial Branch, not the Governor.","sourceUrl":"https://www.sccourts.org/media/courtOrders/HTMLFiles/2020-12-03-01.htm","snapshot":"http://web.archive.org/web/20250408115515/https://www.sccourts.org/media/courtOrders/HTMLFiles/2020-12-03-01.htm","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":39461,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"SC","url":"/library/SC-064","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/SC-064","citation":"Chief Justice Donald W. Beatty, Order re Circuit Court Jury Trials (2020-12-03-01) (Ex. SC-064)","stateName":"South Carolina","related":["SC-053","SC-030","SC-048","SC-052","SC-065"]}