Act No. 6
Public Acts of 2005
Approved by the Governor
April 7, 2005
Filed with the Secretary of State
April 7, 2005
EFFECTIVE DATE: April 7, 2005
STATE OF MICHIGAN
93RD LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2005
Introduced by Rep. Bieda
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4054
AN ACT to amend 1961 PA 236, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the statutes relating to the organization and jurisdiction of the courts of this state; the powers and duties of such courts, and of the judges and other officers thereof; the forms and attributes of civil claims and actions; the time within which civil actions and proceedings may be brought in said courts; pleading, evidence, practice and procedure in civil and criminal actions and proceedings in said courts; to provide remedies and penalties for the violation of certain provisions of this act; to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with or contravening any of the provisions of this act; and to repeal acts and parts of acts," 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).
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor