2020 Georgia Code
Title 15 - Courts
Chapter 12 - Juries
Article 3 - Selection of Jurors
- § 15-12-40. Ineligibility to Serve as Trial Juror
- § 15-12-40.1. State-Wide Master Jury List; Driver's License Information; List of Registered Voters; Random List of Persons to Comprise Venire
- § 15-12-40.2. Through 15-12-43
- § 15-12-43.1. Review of County Master Jury List
- § 15-12-44. Procedures on Loss or Destruction of Jury Box or Jury List
- § 15-12-44.1. Safeguarding of Master Jury Lists; Development of State-Wide System to Ensure Preservation of Jury Data
- § 15-12-45. Loss or Destruction of Precepts
- § 15-12-46. Adjournment of Term Pending Choosing of Trial or Grand Jurors
- Discrimination against employee for attending a judicial proceeding in response to a court order or process, § 34-1-3.
Law reviews.- For article, "Before You Accept that Friend Request or Publish that Post: Ethical Issues for Consideration in Social Media Interaction," see 24 Ga. St. B.J. 19 (Aug. 2018).
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Constitutionality of jury selection system.
- There is no constitutional defect in system of selecting jurors. Mann v. Cox, 487 F. Supp. 147 (S.D. Ga. 1979).
Purpose and construction.
- Statutes for selecting jurors, drawing and summoning jurors, form no part of a system to procure an impartial jury to parties. The statutes establish a mode of distributing jury duties among persons in the respective counties, the statutes provide for rotation in jury service, the statutes prescribe the qualifications of jurors, and the time and manner of summoning the jurors, and are directory to those whose duty it is to select, draw, and summon persons for jurors. Obviously, however, a disregard of the essential and substantial provisions of the statute will have the effect of vitiating the array. Franklin v. State, 245 Ga. 141, 263 S.E.2d 666, cert. denied, 447 U.S. 930, 100 S. Ct. 3029, 65 L. Ed. 2d 1124 (1980).
RESEARCH REFERENCES
C.J.S.
- 38A C.J.S., Grand Juries, § 32.
ALR.- Validity of jury selection as affected by accused's absence from conducting of procedures for selection and impaneling of final jury panel for specific case, 33 A.L.R.4th 429.
