MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                        985

8.    Exemptions

There shall be no exemptions from jury service.

9.    Excuses and exclusions

(a)  Except as provided in section 6 of this Article, no person or class
of persons shall be disqualified, excluded, excused, or exempt from serv-
ice as jurors; but any person summoned for jury service may be (i) ex-
cused by the court, upon a showing of undue hardship, extreme in-
convenience, or public necessity, for such period as the court deems
necessary, at the conclusion of which such person shall be summoned
again for jury service under the provisions of Section 7 of this Article,
or (ii) excluded by the court on the ground that such person may be
unable to render impartial jury service or that his service as a juror
would be likely to disrupt the proceedings, or (iii) excluded upon per-
emptory challenge as provided by law, or (iv) excluded pursuant to
the procedure specified by law upon a challenge by any party for good
cause shown, or (v) excused in accordance with rule or law by the
court as being in excess of the number of jurors required to be im-
paneled in a particular case, or (vi) excluded upon determination by
the court that his service as a juror would be likely to threaten the
secrecy of the proceedings, or otherwise adversely affect the integrity
of the jury deliberations. No person shall be excluded under clause
(vi) of this subsection unless the judge states, on the record, his rea-
sons for the exclusion and his determination that such exclusion is
warranted and will not be inconsistent with sections 1 and 2 of this
Article. Any person excluded from a particular jury under clause
(ii), (iii), (iv) or (v) of this subsection shall be eligible to sit on
another jury if the basis for his initial exclusion would not be relevant
to his ability to serve on such other jury.

(b)  No person shall be disqualified, excused, or excluded from serv-
ice in a particular case as a juror of this State by reason of his beliefs
against capital punishment unless such belief would prevent his re-
turning a verdict of guilt or innocence according to law.

(c)  Whenever a person is disqualified or excused from jury service,
the jury commissioner or clerk shall note in the space provided on his
juror qualification form or on the juror's card drawn from the quali-
fied jury wheel the specific reason therefor.

(d)  In any three-year period, no person shall be required to (i)
serve or attend court for prospective service as a petit juror for more
than one term of court, EXCEPT WHEN NECESSARY TO COM-
PLETE SERVICE IN A PARTICULAR CASE, or (ii) serve on
more than one grand jury, or (iii) serve as both a grand and petit
juror.

(e)  When there is an unanticipated shortage of available petit jur-
ors drawn from a qualified jury wheel, the court may require the
sheriff to summon a sufficient number of petit jurors selected at ran-
dom from the voter registration lists in a manner ordered by the
court consistent with