Contact counsel of your choice. If you cannot afford counsel, you may also complete and file the required pleadings yourself. Contact:

Clerk of Courts Mifflin County Courthouse
20 North Wayne Street
Lewistown, PA 17044
Telephone: 717-248-8146

The following office may be able to provide legal assistance to you.

MidPenn Legal Services
3500 East
College Avenue, Suite 1295
State College, PA 16801
Telephone:800-326-9177 (toll free within PA)
814-238-4958 (outside PA)

For additional information, you may wish to refer to PALawHelp.org,
an online guide to legal information and legal services in Pennsylvania.

An application may be obtained through the office of the Public Defender. Contact:

Shawn M. Curry, Esquire
20 North Wayne Street
Lewistown, PA 17044
Telephone: 717-914-6590

Contact counsel of your choice. If you cannot afford counsel, the following office may be able to provide legal assistance to you.


MidPenn Legal Services
3500 East College Avenue, Suite 1295
State College, PA 16801
Telephone: 800-326-9177 (toll free within PA)
814-238-4958 (outside PA)


You may also complete and file the required pleadings yourself. Please note you are required to comply with the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure. Be sure to read and follow all instructions. Contact:
Prothonotary’s Office Mifflin County Courthouse
20 North Wayne Street
Lewistown, PA 17044
Telephone: 717-248-8146


Forms and instructions are also available online at the Prothonotary Forms page.

You may also complete and file the required pleadings yourself. Please note you are required to comply with the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure. Be sure to read and follow all instructions. Contact:
Prothonotary’s Office Mifflin County Courthouse
20 North Wayne Street
Lewistown, PA 17044
Telephone: 717-248-8146

Forms and instructions are also available online at the Prothonotary Forms page.
 

Contact counsel of your choice. If you cannot afford counsel, the following office may be able to provide legal assistance to you.

MidPenn Legal Services
3500 East College Avenue, Suite 1295
State College, PA 16801
Telephone: 800-326-9177 (toll free within PA)
814-238-4958 (outside PA)


You may also complete and file the required pleadings yourself. Please note you are required to comply with the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure. Be sure to read and follow all instructions. Contact:
Prothonotary’s Office

Mifflin County Courthouse
20 North Wayne Street
Lewistown, PA 17044
Telephone: 717-248-8146

Forms and instructions are also available online at the
Prothonotary Forms page.

The Court of Common Pleas of Mifflin County is required by law to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.  For information about accessible facilities and reasonable accommodations available to disabled individuals having business before the court, please contact the court office (717-248-4613).  All arrangements must be made at least 72 hours prior to any hearing or business before the court.

Criminal trials do not usually last longer than one or two days.  Generally, civil trials do not last longer than three to four days.  However, some trials last longer.

​There is no limit on the number of times your name may be drawn for service.  In Pennsylvania, however, anyone who has served on a trial as a juror fewer than three days does not need to serve again for one year.  Anyone who has served three days or more does not have to serve again for three years.  If drawn and you wish to serve again before the expiration of those time periods, you may.  In Mifflin County, anyone who has served as a juror for one day does not have to serve again for three years.  They need only report their prior service date and their desire to be excused to the court office if called upon a second time within the three-year period.

Yes.  More people are called than actually serve because it is not always possible to estimate accurately the number of jurors who will be needed to serve each day.

If you work for the government, your employer must pay you.  If you work in the private sector, your employer does not have to pay you.  However, many employers recognize the importance of jury service and compensate their employees accordingly.

In many cases, the court will do what it can to accommodate you.  Call the court office (717-248-4613) and ask.  Don’t simply ignore the summons.

Jurors almost always go home at the end of the day.  Sequestration is a term used to describe jurors staying at a local hotel at the county’s expense during the trial.  Sequestration rarely occurs.

Telephone the court office (717-248-4613) as soon as possible.

​A jury summons is a court order.  If you ignore it, you are subject to arrest and prosecution.

The law prohibits any employer from preventing an employee to serve as a juror.  The law also prohibits an employer from depriving a juror of benefits because of jury service, such as requiring you to use vacation time to serve.

Anyone 18 years of age or older who is a United States citizen and resident of the county and who has not been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for more than one year and has not been granted a pardon or amnesty therefor.

Yes, $9.00 per day for the first three days and $25.00 per day thereafter.  These fees are set by the State legislature.  The County of Mifflin pays mileage to jurors for transportation to and from the courthouse.

Members of the clergy, Magisterial District Judges, Mayors, Judges of
the Court of Common Pleas.

Contact your counsel or The Abuse Network.

Contact counsel of your choice. If you cannot afford counsel, contact:


The Abuse Network
31 South Dorcas Street
Lewistown, PA 17044
24-Hour Hotline: 717-242-2444