CHAPTER 2. Formation of Grand Jury

Chapter 2 added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 501.

§§ 893–913 · 30 sections

1. ARTICLE 1. Qualifications of Grand Jurors §§ 893–894 · 2 sections

   • § 893 (a) A person is competent to act as a grand juror only if he possesses each of the following qualifications: (1) He is a citizen of the United States of the…
   • § 894 Sections 204, 218, and 219 of the Code of Civil Procedure specify the exemptions and the excuses which relieve a person from liability to serve as a grand…
2. ARTICLE 2. Listing and Selection of Grand Jurors §§ 895–902 · 7 sections

   • § 895 During the month preceding the beginning of the fiscal year of the county, the superior court of each county shall make an order designating the estimated…
   • § 896 (a) Immediately after an order is made pursuant to Section 895, the court shall select the grand jurors required by personal interview for the purpose of…
   • § 898 The list of grand jurors made in a county having a population in excess of four million shall contain the number of persons which has been designated by the…
   • § 899 The names for the grand jury list shall be selected from the different wards, judicial districts, or supervisorial districts of the respective counties in…
   • § 900 On receiving the list of persons selected by the court, the jury commissioner shall file it in the jury commissioner’s office and have the list, which shall…
   • § 901 (a) The persons whose names are so returned shall be known as regular jurors, and shall serve for one year and until other persons are selected and returned.…
   • § 902 The names of persons drawn for grand jurors shall be drawn from the grand jury box by withdrawing either the pieces of paper placed therein pursuant to…
3. ARTICLE 3. Jury Commissioners §§ 903.1–903.4 · 4 sections

   • § 903.1 Pursuant to written rules or instructions adopted by a majority of the judges of the superior court of the county, the jury commissioner shall furnish the…
   • § 903.2 The jury commissioner shall diligently inquire and inform himself or herself in respect to the qualifications of persons resident in his or her county who may…
   • § 903.3 Pursuant to the rules or instructions adopted by a majority of the judges of the superior court, the jury commissioner shall return to the judges the list of…
   • § 903.4 The judges are not required to select any name from the list returned by the jury commissioner, but may, if in their judgment the due administration of justice…
4. ARTICLE 4. Impaneling of Grand Jury §§ 904–913 · 17 sections

   • § 904 Every superior court, whenever in its opinion the public interest so requires, shall make and file with the jury commissioner an order directing a grand jury…
   • § 904.4 (a) In any county having a population of more than 370,000 but less than 400,000 as established by Section 28020 of the Government Code, the presiding judge of…
   • § 904.6 (a) In any county or city and county, the presiding judge of the superior court, or the judge appointed by the presiding judge to supervise the grand jury,…
   • § 904.7 (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 904.6 or any other provision, in the County of San Bernardino, the presiding judge of the superior court, or the…
   • § 904.8 (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 904.6 or any other provision, in the County of Los Angeles, the presiding judge of the superior court, or the…
   • § 905 In all counties there shall be at least one grand jury drawn and impaneled in each year.
   • § 905.5 (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), the grand jury shall be impaneled and serve during the fiscal year of the county in the manner provided in…
   • § 906 The order shall designate the time at which the drawing will take place. The names of the grand jurors shall be drawn, and the list of names certified and…
   • § 907 Any grand juror summoned, who willfully and without reasonable excuse fails to attend, may be attached and compelled to attend and the court may also impose a…
   • § 908 If the required number of the persons summoned as grand jurors are present and not excused, the required number shall constitute the grand jury. If more than…
   • § 908.1 When, after the grand jury consisting of the required number of persons has been impaneled pursuant to law, the membership is reduced for any reason, vacancies…
   • § 908.2 (a) Upon the decision of the superior court pursuant to Section 901 to adopt this method of selecting grand jurors, when the required number of persons have…
   • § 909 Before accepting a person drawn as a grand juror, the court shall be satisfied that such person is duly qualified to act as such juror. When a person is drawn…
   • § 910 No challenge shall be made or allowed to the panel from which the grand jury is drawn, nor to an individual grand juror, except when made by the court for want…
   • § 911 The following oath shall be taken by each member of the grand jury: “I do solemnly swear (affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the United States and…
   • § 912 From the persons summoned to serve as grand jurors and appearing, the court shall appoint a foreman. The court shall also appoint a foreman when the person…
   • § 913 If a grand jury is not in existence, the Attorney General may demand the impaneling of a grand jury by those charged with the duty to do so, and upon such…