HOUSE BILL No. 4054

 

January 27, 2005, Introduced by Rep. Bieda and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

     A bill to amend 1961 PA 236, entitled

 

"Revised judicature act of 1961,"

 

by amending section 1312 (MCL 600.1312), as amended by 2004 PA 12.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1312. The board shall apply the key number uniformly to

 

the names on the list received pursuant to section 1310 and compile

 

a list or card index, to be known as the first jury list, which

 

shall include every name and only those names as the application of

 

the key number has designated. The board shall do this as follows:

 

     (a) Select by a random method a starting number between 0 and

 

the key number.

 

     (b) Count down the list the number of names to reach the

 

starting number. That name shall be placed on the first jury list.


 

     (c) Continue from that name counting down the list, beginning

 

to count again with the number 1, until the key number is reached.

 

That name shall be placed on the first jury list.

 

     (d) Repeat the process provided in subdivision (c) until the

 

whole list has been counted and the names placed on the first jury

 

list.

 

     (e) The board shall then remove from the first jury list the

 

name of any person who its records show served, pursuant to the

 

provisions of this chapter, as a petit or grand juror in any court

 

of record in the county at any time in the preceding 1 year.

 

     (f) The board, with the approval of the chief circuit judge,

 

may remove from the first jury list the name of any person who has

 

been convicted of a felony and is therefore disqualified from

 

serving as a juror pursuant to section 1307a(1)(e).