Bill Text: MI HB4057 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Courts; juries; option for jury in district court criminal trials to be composed of residents residing within that district; allow. Amends sec. 1324 of 1961 PA 236 (MCL 600.1324).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-01-27 - Printed Bill Filed 01/23/2009 [HB4057 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-HB4057-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4057

 

January 22, 2009, Introduced by Rep. Lemmons and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

     A bill to amend 1961 PA 236, entitled

 

"Revised judicature act of 1961,"

 

by amending section 1324 (MCL 600.1324), as amended by 2004 PA 12.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1324. (1) From time to time, the chief judge of each

 

court of record in the county shall order the board to select

 

jurors for jury service. Each such order shall contain all of the

 

following information:

 

     (a) A time limit within which the selection shall be

 

completed.

 

     (b) The number of jurors to be selected for a panel.

 

     (c) The number of panels to be selected.

 

     (d) The court or courts in which each panel shall serve.

 

     (e) The period of service of each panel, subject to section

 

1343.

 

     (2) Upon Except as provided in subsection (4), upon the order

 

of the chief circuit judge, jury panels or parts of jury panels

 

selected for any court in the county may be used for jury selection

 

in any court of record in the county, if jurors on the panel or

 

part of a panel selected for such use are otherwise eligible to

 

serve as jurors in the particular court.

 

     (3) If a city located in more than 1 county is placed entirely

 

within a single district of the district court pursuant to chapter

 

81, the supreme court by rule shall specify the procedure for

 

compiling the second jury list for that district court district so

 

as to include names and addresses of residents from the parts of

 

the counties which comprise that district.

 

     (4) Upon the request of the defendant in a criminal trial held

 

in district court, the jurors serving in that trial all shall be

 

residents of that judicial district.