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Ch. 486
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2000 LAWS OF MARYLAND
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Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings
8-104.
(A) The jury commissioner or the clerk of the court shall select the names of
prospective jurors from among:
(1) [those] THOSE persons AT LEAST 18 years old [or older] whose
names appear on the voter registration lists[,];
(2) THE LIST OF INDIVIDUALS AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD WHO HAVE BEEN
ISSUED A DRIVER'S LICENSE BY THE MOTOR VEHICLE ADMINISTRATION;
(3) THE LIST OF INDIVIDUALS AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD WHO HAVE BEEN
ISSUED AN IDENTIFICATION CARD BY THE MOTOR VEHICLE ADMINISTRATION; and
(4) [from such additional] ADDITIONAL sources permitted by a plan
adopted under § 8-201 OF THIS TITLE.
(B) Volunteers for jury service shall be refused, and recommendations, if made,
may not be accepted.
8-202.
Among other things, the juror selection plan referred to in § 8-201 shall:
(1) 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 his appointment shall be established by the plan and his compensation set
by law. The clerk or the jury commissioner, shall act under the supervision and
control of a jury judge who is the administrative judge or another judge of the circuit
court of the county as provided by the plan;
(2) Specify detailed procedures to be followed by the jury commissioner
or clerk in selecting names from the voter registration lists, THE MOTOR VEHICLE
ADMINISTRATION LISTS AS SPECIFIED IN § 8-104 OF THIS TITLE, or from other
sources as are necessary to carry out the policy of §§ 8-102 and 8-103 of this title.
These procedures shall be designed to assure the random selection of a fair cross
section of the citizens of the State who reside in the county where the court convenes.
(i) Persons selected to be mailed juror qualification forms under §
8-206 of this subtitle may be obtained by a random selection process that provides the
names directly from the source list, as provided for in § 8-204 of this subtitle, if a
properly programmed electronic data processing system or device is used. The source
list used for this selection process shall be the most recent available. If this method is
not used, a master jury wheel or a device similar in purpose and function such as an
electronic data processing system or device may be used.
(ii) The plan shall specify a minimum number of names, selected at
random, to be placed initially in the master jury wheel, which shall be at least 1/2 of
1 percent of the total number of persons on the lists used as sources of names for the
county; but if this number of names is cumbersome and unnecessary, or inadequate,
the plan may fix a smaller or larger number of names to be placed in the master
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