                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

LISTS OF QUALIFIED PERSONS TO BE PREPARED BY JURY COMMISSIONERS; RANDOM
SELECTION PROCESS (§ 8.01-345)

The commissioners shall, not later than December 1 following their appointment,
submit a list showing the names, addresses, freeholder status and, if available,
the occupations of such of the inhabitants of their respective counties or
cities as are well qualified under § 8.01-337 to serve as jurors and are not
excluded or exempt by §§ 8.01-338 to 8.01-341 and 8.01-342. Such master jury
list shall be used in selecting jurors for a twelve-month period beginning on
the first day of the first term of court in the calendar year next succeeding
December 1. The number of persons selected for each court shall be as specified
in the order appointing the commissioners.
		The jury commissioners shall utilize random selection techniques, either
manual, mechanical or electronic, using a current voter registration list and,
where feasible, a list of persons issued a driver&#8217;s license as defined in
§ 46.2-100 from the Department of Motor Vehicles, city or county directories,
telephone books, personal property tax rolls, and other such lists as may be
designated and approved by the chief judge of the circuit, to select the jurors
representative of the broad community interests, to be placed on the master jury
list. The commissioners shall make reasonable effort to exclude the names of
deceased persons and unqualified persons from the master jury list. After such
random selection, the commissioners shall apply such statutory exceptions and
exemptions as may be applicable to the names so selected. The chief judge shall
promulgate such procedural rules as are necessary to ensure the integrity of the
random selection process and to ensure compliance with other provisions of law
with respect to jury selection and service.
		Where a city and county adjoin, in whole or in part, the names of the
inhabitants of a city shall not be placed upon the county list, nor those of a
county upon the city list except in those cases in which the circuit court of
the county and the circuit court of the city have concurrent jurisdiction of
both civil and criminal cases arising within the territorial limits of such
county or city. However, in the case of the City of Franklin and the County of
Southampton, the number of jurors selected from Southampton County shall be
proportionate to the number of jurors selected from the City of Franklin based
upon the respective populations of the county and city.

HISTORY: 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.