§612-18  Trial jury.  (a)  If the court so orders, trial jurors shall be drawn, summoned, and further proceedings had as provided in section 612-17.

     (b)  If no order is made under subsection (a) in a particular circuit, the judge (or judges, if there are more than one) of that circuit may order a system of jury selection from the certified list of trial jurors which is not contrary to the general purposes of this chapter.  In no case shall the trial jurors be chosen other than by lot, nor shall the trial jury be selected from the jurors other than by lot in open court.  In selecting the trial jury there is no requirement that all the names ordered by a judge be exhausted before other names may be used in the drawing, and the names of jurors may be mixed with each other for the drawing.

     (c)  The names of prospective jurors to be summoned to sit as a jury, and the contents of juror qualification forms completed by those jurors, shall be made available to the litigants concerned. [L 1973, c 191, pt of §1; am L 1987, c 366, §11; am L 1993, c 159, §4]

 

Case Notes

 

  Purpose of subsection (c) is to uphold a criminal defendant's constitutional guarantees of a presumption of innocence and an impartial jury.  83 H. 507, 928 P.2d 1.