F. TRIAL PANELS

Purpose: The duty of the trial panel, or jury, is to determine whether an honor offense has occurred.

1. The Vice Chair for Trials shall be responsible for randomly selecting the students for panels consisting of student jurors.

2. If the accused student so chooses,

a. Panels adjudicating the accusation of a graduate student should contain at least four jurors drawn from the graduate and professional programs.

b. Panels adjudicating the accusation of an undergraduate student should contain at least four jurors from the undergraduate programs.

The accused student must indicate his or her selection of the trial panel composition in his or her written request for trial.

3. Failure of a selected student to comply with the duties of a juror will be considered a breach of the University Standards of Conduct enforced by the University Judiciary Committee.