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Session Laws, 1969
Volume 692, Page 981   View pdf image
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MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                          981

approval by the Court of Appeals. The Court of Appeals may from
time to time adopt rules governing the provisions and the operation of
the plans formulated under this Article.

(b) Among other things, such juror selection plan shall

(i) either designate a jury commissioner, or authorize the clerk of
the court, to manage the jury selection process. If a jury commissioner
is designated, the manner of appointment shall be established by the
plan and his compensation shall be set by law. The clerk or the jury
commissioner, as the case may be, shall act under the supervision and
control of the chief judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City,
the Administrative Judge of the Circuit Court for the county, or such
other judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City or of the court
as the plan may provide. Such judge is hereinafter referred to as
"the jury judge;"

(ii) specify detailed procedures to be followed by the jury com-
missioner or clerk in selecting names from the voter registration lists
specified in section 3.
OR FROM OTHER SOURCES AS MAY BE
NECESSARY TO CARRY OUT THE POLICY OF SECTIONS 1
AND 2 OF THIS ARTICLE. These procedures shall be designed to
ensure the random selection of a fair cross section of the citizens of
this State residing in the county wherein the court convenes or in
Baltimore City if the court convenes therein;
INCLUDING THE
USE OF A
CITY, WHICH MAY INCLUDE THE USE OF A
PROPERLY PROGRAMMED ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSING
SYSTEM OR DEVICE;

(iii) provide for a master jury wheel (or a device similar in pur-
pose and function ,
INCLUDING THE USE OF A PROPERLY
PROGRAMMED ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM
OR DEVICE) into which the names of those randomly selected
shall be placed. The plan shall fix a minimum number of names to be
placed initially in the master jury wheel, which shall be at least one-
half of 1 per centum of the total number of persons on the lists used
as a source of names for the county or Baltimore City; but if this
number of names is believed to be cumbersome and unnecessary or
inadequate, the plan may fix a smaller or greater number of names
to be placed in the master wheel, but in all cases the number shall be
at least two hundred. The jury judge may order additional randomly
selected names to be placed in the master jury wheel from time to
time as necessary. The plan shall provide for periodic emptying and
refilling of the master jury wheel at specified times and shall ensure
that such periodic refilling shall place in the master jury wheel names
from voter registration lists used in the general election last preceding
the time of refilling;

(iv) fix the time the names drawn from the qualified jury wheel
shall be disclosed to the parties and to the public. Notwithstanding
any other provision of law or this act, the name, address, age, sex,
occupation, occupation of spouse, and education of each person whose
name is drawn from the