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1996 SESSION

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HB 541 How jurors selected from panel.

Introduced by: Thelma S. Drake | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY:

How jurors selected from panel. Broadens the application of the current law to require the clerk, in all criminal trials, upon finding the remaining jury panel free from exception, to exercise the parties remaining peremptory strikes. Currently the law states that the process applies only to those persons "indicted for a felony" who "elect to be tried jointly."

FULL TEXT

• 01/18/96  House: Presented & ordered printed 962130216  pdf

HISTORY

• 01/18/96  House: Presented & ordered printed 962130216
• 01/18/96  House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 01/22/96  House: Assigned to C. J. sub-committee: 1
• 02/11/96  House: Continued to 1997 in Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N)