Eighteen-year-old Jurors: Hearing, Ninety-second Congress, First Session, on S. 1975 ... July 29, 1971 |
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_do_ 82 STAT actual voters Administrative Office age to 18 amendment automation bill Chairman chief judge Circuit total clerical clerk or jury commission or clerk committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY district court plan District of Columbia Division of Procedural eligibility Federal courts grand and petit Guam HALLORAN Judicial Conference judicial district Judiciary July to December June to September juror qualification form jury commission jury panels Jury Selection Jury Selection Act jury service jury system justice LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS March 27 master jury wheel master wheel name selection names of persons North Carolina percent petit jury prospective jurors Puerto Rico qualified jury wheel refilling date right to vote Senator BURDICK Senator HRUSKA Senator TUNNEY Sept September 1972 statement subsection summoned title 28 title in selecting U.S. Courts U.S. SENATOR United States Code Virginia voter files voter lists voter registration lists voting age
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Page 4 - It is the policy of the United States that all litigants in Federal courts entitled to trial by jury shall have the right to grand and petit juries selected at random from a fair cross section of the community in the district or division wherein the court convenes.
Page 8 - ... (1) He has been convicted in a State or Federal court of record of a crime punishable by imprisonment for more than one year and his civil rights have not been restored by pardon or amnesty. "(2) He is unable to read, write, speak, and understand...
Page 9 - ... to appear and show cause for his failure to comply with the summons. Any person who fails to appear pursuant to such order or who fails to show good cause for noncompliance with the summons may be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than three days, or both.
Page 10 - ... shall preclude any individual or any State or local agency from asserting any right based on any other Federal or State law not inconsistent with this title, including any statute or ordinance requiring nondiscrimination in public establishments or accommodations, or from pursuing any remedy, civil or criminal, which may be available for the vindication or enforcement of such right.
Page 6 - ... number of names is believed to be cumbersome and unnecessary, the plan may fix a smaller number of names to be placed in the master wheel, but in no event less than one thousand. The chief judge of the district court, or such other district court judge as the plan may provide, may order additional names to be placed in the master jury wheel from time to time as necessary. The plan shall provide for periodic emptying and refilling of the master jury wheel at specified times.
Page 4 - No citizen shall be excluded from service as a grand or petit juror in the district courts of the United States on account of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or economic status.
Page 6 - ... one-half of 1 per centum of the total number of persons on the list used as a source of names for the district or division ; but If this number of names is believed to be cumbersome and unnecessary, the plan may fix a smaller number of names to be placed In the master wheel, but In no event less than one thousand.
Page 13 - That, for purposes of sections 1861, 1862, 1867, and 1869 of this chapter, these terms shall include the District of Columbia Court of General Sessions and the Juvenile Court of the District of Columbia.
Page 6 - USCS §§ 1861, 1862]. (6) specify those groups of persons or occupational classes whose members shall be barred from jury service on the ground that they are exempt. Such groups or classes shall be exempt only if the district court finds, and the plan states, that their exemption is in the public interest and would not be inconsistent with sections 1861 and 1862 of this title [28 USCS §§ 1861, 1862].
Page 5 - ... (b) Among other things, such plan shall — "(1) either establish a jury commission, or authorize the clerk of the court, to manage the jury selection process. If the plan establishes a jury commission, the district court shall appoint one citizen to serve with the clerk of the court as the jury commission : Provided, however, That the plan for the District of Columbia may establish a jury commission consisting of three citizens.