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Title 15. COURTS · Chapter 12. JURIES · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

15-12-4. Eligibility of person to serve as a trial or grand juror.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    Any person who has served as a trial or grand juror at any session of the superior or state courts shall be ineligible for duty as a juror until the next succeeding county master jury list has been received by the clerk.#

  2. (b)

    In addition to any other qualifications provided under this chapter, no person shall be qualified to serve as a juror under this chapter unless that person is a citizen of the United States.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1903, p. 83, §§ 1, 2; Penal Code 1910, §§ 824, 825; Ga. L. 1911, p. 72, § 1; Code 1933, §§ 59-114, 59-115; Ga. L. 1983, p. 884, § 3-15; Ga. L. 1984, p. 22, § 15; Ga. L. 2011, p. 59, § 1-7/HB 415; Ga. L. 2014, p. 451, § 5/HB 776; Ga. L. 2014, p. 862, § 4/HB 1078.

Editor's notes

Ga. L. 2011, p. 59, § 1-1/HB 415, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: ‘‘This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Jury Composition Reform Act of 2011.’’’

Other notes

The 2014 amendments.
The first 2014 amendment, effective July 1, 2014, substituted ‘‘juror until the next succeeding county master jury list has been received by the clerk’’ for ‘‘juror at the next succeeding term of the court in which such person has previously served but shall be eligible to serve at the next succeeding term of court for a different level of court’’ at the end of subsection (a). The second 2014 amendment, effective April 29, 2014, in subsection (a), inserted ‘‘trial or grand’’ near the beginning, and made an identical change as the first amendment.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t15-ch12-24-(v13a)-2015-pdf.pdf, Volume V13A, 2015 edition, pages 16 to 17; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 3ead04cf60ab.