Chapter IV: The Assize Court

The jury of the Mayotte Assize Court is composed of three assessor-jurors when the Assize Court rules at first instance and six assessor-jurors when it rules on appeal. These assessor-jurors are drawn by lot, for each session, from a list drawn up jointly by the prefect and the president of the judicial court, made up of persons proposed by the public prosecutor or by the mayors and meeting the conditions…

For the application of articles 296,297 and 298, the defence may not challenge more than one assessor-judge at first instance and more than two on appeal. The public prosecutor may not challenge any of them. The number of assessor-jurors drawn by lot is three in the first instance and six in the appeal instance and the trial jury is formed at the moment when the names of the three or…

The majorities of seven or eight votes provided for in Article 359 and in the second paragraph of Article 362 are replaced by majorities of four or six votes.

The provisions relating to the departmental criminal court are not applicable in the Department of Mayotte.