GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1985 SESSION
CHAPTER 368
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.