8.01-345 - Lists of qualified persons to be prepared by jury commissioners; random selection process.
§ 8.01-345. Lists of qualified persons to be prepared by jury commissioners;random selection process.
The commissioners shall, not later than December 1 following theirappointment, submit a list showing the names, addresses, freeholder statusand, if available, the occupations of such of the inhabitants of theirrespective counties or cities as are well qualified under § 8.01-337 to serveas jurors and are not excluded or exempt by §§ 8.01-338 to 8.01-341 and8.01-342. Such master jury list shall be used in selecting jurors for atwelve-month period beginning on the first day of the first term of court inthe calendar year next succeeding December 1. The number of persons selectedfor each court shall be as specified in the order appointing thecommissioners.
The jury commissioners shall utilize random selection techniques, eithermanual, mechanical or electronic, using a current voter registration listand, where feasible, a list of persons issued a driver's license as definedin § 46.2-100 from the Department of Motor Vehicles, city or countydirectories, telephone books, personal property tax rolls, and other suchlists as may be designated and approved by the chief judge of the circuit, toselect the jurors representative of the broad community interests, to beplaced on the master jury list. The commissioners shall make reasonableeffort to exclude the names of deceased persons and unqualified persons fromthe master jury list. After such random selection, the commissioners shallapply such statutory exceptions and exemptions as may be applicable to thenames so selected. The chief judge shall promulgate such procedural rules asare necessary to ensure the integrity of the random selection process and toensure compliance with other provisions of law with respect to jury selectionand service.
Where a city and county adjoin, in whole or in part, the names of theinhabitants of a city shall not be placed upon the county list, nor those ofa county upon the city list except in those cases in which the circuit courtof the county and the circuit court of the city have concurrent jurisdictionof both civil and criminal cases arising within the territorial limits ofsuch county or city. However, in the case of the City of Franklin and theCounty of Southampton, the number of jurors selected from Southampton Countyshall be proportionate to the number of jurors selected from the City ofFranklin based upon the respective populations of the county and city.
(Code 1950, § 8-208.10; 1973, c. 439; 1974, c. 369; 1977, cc. 451, 617; 1978,c. 209; 1979, c. 665; 1983, c. 107; 1984, c. 50; 1989, cc. 616, 632; 1990, c.758; 2000, c. 828; 2007, cc. 450, 720.)