2017 House Bill 4797

Authorize different jury pools

Introduced in the House

June 20, 2017

Introduced by Rep. Sherry Gay-Dagnogo (D-8)

To allow courts to create a jury pool “consisting of jurors drawn from within a municipality in counties with concentrations of specific and identifiable ethnic groups that are not represented in a countywide pool to increase the likelihood of drawing juries of one's peers”.

Referred to the Committee on Judiciary