GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1985 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 368

SENATE BILL 268

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR INITIAL RANDOMIZATION OF THE BIENNIAL JURY LIST IN COUNTIES USING ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT FOR JURY SELECTION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 9-2.1 is amended by designating the current section as subsection (a) and adding a new subsection (b) to read as follows:

"(b)      To facilitate random selection of jurors, all the names on the biennial jury list may be sorted into random order before the first venire is drawn. Thereafter, names may be selected sequentially from the randomized list without further randomization, except as required by G.S. 15A-1214. Public access to the jury list as required by G.S. 9-4 shall be limited to an alphabetical listing of the names. Access to the randomized list shall be prohibited."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of June, 1985.