2020 Georgia Code
Title 15 - Courts
Chapter 12 - Juries
Article 4 - Grand Juries
Part 2 - Special Purpose Grand Juries
§ 15-12-102. Applicability of Part

This part shall apply only to all counties and consolidated city-county governments of this state. Except as otherwise provided by this part, Part 1 of this article shall apply to the grand juries authorized by this part.

(Code 1981, §15-12-102, enacted by Ga. L. 2016, p. 186, § 5/HB 941.)

- This Code section formerly pertained to the application of this part. The former Code section was based on Code 1933, § 59-601a, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 270, § 1; Ga. L. 1976, p. 982, § 1; Ga. L. 1982, p. 541, §§ 1, 2.

- For article on the 2016 enactment of this Code section, see 33 Georgia St. U.L. Rev. 79 (2016).

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Editor's notes.

- In light of the similarity of the statutory provisions, decisions decided under former Code Section 15-12-102 are included in the annotations for this Code section.

- Although the defendant established a violation of the impaneling order, which fixed the scope of the special purpose grand jury's investigative powers to county corruption, but not city, and it also constituted a violation of O.C.G.A. § 15-12-71 and former O.C.G.A. § 15-12-102, neither dismissal of the indictment nor suppression of the evidence was the proper remedy for the grand jury's overreach as no violation of the defendant's constitutional rights nor a structural defect in the grand jury process occurred. State v. Lampl, 296 Ga. 892, 770 S.E.2d 629 (2015);(decided under former O.C.G.A. § 15-12-102).

ARTICLE 5 TRIAL JURIES

Law reviews.

- For note discussing racial discrimination in jury selection, see 1 Ga. L. Rev. 674 (1967).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- Permitting jury in civil cases to examine, or take into jury room, the pleadings or copies thereof, 89 A.L.R. 1260.

Member of grand or petit jury as officer within constitutional or statutory provisions in relation to oath or affirmation, 118 A.L.R. 1098.

Permitting or refusing to permit jury in criminal case to examine or take into jury room the indictment or information or other pleading or copy thereof, 120 A.L.R. 463.

Prejudicial effect of unauthorized view by jury in civil case of scene of accident or premises in question, 11 A.L.R.3d 918.

Propriety of order forbidding news media from publishing names and addresses of jurors in criminal cases, 36 A.L.R.4th 1126.

Propriety of use of multiple juries at joint trial of multiple defendants in state criminal prosecution, 41 A.L.R.4th 1189.

Taking and use of trial notes by jury, 36 A.L.R.5th 255.

PART 1 IN GENERAL

Cross references.

- Rendering of verdict in criminal action, T. 17, C. 9.

- For note, "Addressing Racial Bias in the Jury System: Another Failed Attempt?," see 35 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 843 (2019).