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<subtitle article="gcj" title_number="8" subtitle_number="3" title_name="Juries and Jurors" subtitle_name="Prospective and Qualified Jurors">
  <section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="8-301" title_number="8" title_name="Juries and Jurors" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Prospective and Qualified Jurors">
    <level label="a">
      <text>At each interval set in a jury plan for a county, its jury commissioner shall have names selected from the source pool in the number that the jury commissioner decides will satisfy the needs for jury service for the interval.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>Names selected under this section constitute a prospective juror pool.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="8-302" title_number="8" title_name="Juries and Jurors" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Prospective and Qualified Jurors">
    <level label="a">
      <text>In accordance with an agreement, if any, under § 8–213 of this title, a juror qualification form in substantially the following form shall be provided to each prospective juror:</text>
      <text>Juror Qualification Form</text>
      <text>Name:</text>
      <text>Resident address:</text>
      <text>Telephone: (home) _________ (work) _________ (cellular) _______</text>
      <text>Age: _____ Date of Birth:__________</text>
      <text>If you are over 70 years of age, do you wish to be exempted from jury services?    _____Yes _____No</text>
    </level>
    <level label="U">
      <level label="S">
        <text>Citizen? _____Yes _____No</text>
        <text>Able to comprehend, read, speak, and write English? _____Yes _____No</text>
        <text>Highest level of education completed:</text>
        <text>___ high school ___ college ___ graduate school ___ other</text>
        <text>Occupation of prospective juror: __________</text>
        <text>Name of employer: ___________</text>
        <text>Occupation of spouse, if any: __________</text>
        <text>Disability preventing satisfactory jury service? _____Yes _____No</text>
        <text>Do you want an accommodation under the federal Americans with Disabilities    Act? _____Yes _____No</text>
        <text>Pending charge for a crime punishable by imprisonment exceeding 1 year?    _____Yes _____No</text>
        <text>Conviction of crime punishable by imprisonment exceeding 1 year and received    a sentence of imprisonment for more than 1 year and not legally pardoned?    _____Yes _____No</text>
        <text>Date of Conviction __________</text>
        <text>_____Elected official of the federal Legislative Branch, as defined in 2 U.S.C. §    30a.</text>
        <text>_____Active duty member of armed forces, as defined in § 9–901 of the State    Government Article, exempted in accordance with 10 U.S.C. § 982.</text>
        <text>_____Active duty member of the commissioned corps of the National    Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, exempted in accordance with 10     U.S.C. § 982, as made applicable by 33 U.S.C. § 307(a)(6).</text>
        <text>_____Member of Maryland’s organized militia exempted in accordance with    Public Safety Article § 13–218.</text>
        <text>Prior jury service within 3 preceding years: __________</text>
        <text>Form completed by me _____ Another (name) _____ and, if another, why?</text>
        <text>Under the penalties of perjury, the responses are true to the best of my    knowledge</text>
        <text>Signed:________________________________________________</text>
        <text>Prospective Juror</text>
        <text>Individual completing form for prospective juror:</text>
        <text>This form must be completed, signed, and returned to the jury commissioner within 10 days after receipt. Documentation for excusal due to disability, exemption based on armed forces or militia service, pardons, and/or prior jury service must be attached.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>A juror qualification form for a county may include other questions as the county’s jury plan requires.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="8-303" title_number="8" title_name="Juries and Jurors" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Prospective and Qualified Jurors">
    <text>Whenever it seems to a jury commissioner that there is an ambiguity, error, or omission in a person’s juror qualification form, the jury commissioner shall return the form to the person, with instructions to make each needed addition and other change, acknowledge all of the changes, and return the form to the jury commissioner within 10 days after receipt.</text>
  </section>
  <section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="8-304" title_number="8" title_name="Juries and Jurors" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Prospective and Qualified Jurors">
    <level label="a">
      <text>Whenever a person fails to return a completed juror qualification form as instructed, a jury commissioner may summons the person to appear before the jury commissioner or jury judge.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>Whenever a person appears under this section, a jury commissioner or jury judge:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>May require the person to complete, sign, and acknowledge a juror qualification form in the presence of the jury commissioner; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>If, at that time, it seems to the jury commissioner or jury judge to be warranted, may question the person but only as to responses to questions in the form and grounds for disqualification, excusal, exemption, or rescheduling.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="8-305" title_number="8" title_name="Juries and Jurors" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Prospective and Qualified Jurors">
    <text>Whenever a person appears for jury service, a jury commissioner or jury judge:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>May require the person to complete, sign, and acknowledge a juror qualification form in the presence of the jury commissioner; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If, at that time, it seems to the jury commissioner or jury judge to be warranted, may question the person but only as to responses to questions in the form and grounds for disqualification, excusal, exemption, or rescheduling.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="8-306" title_number="8" title_name="Juries and Jurors" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Prospective and Qualified Jurors">
    <text>An individual is exempt from jury service only if the individual:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Is at least 70 years old and asks the jury commissioner, in writing, for an exemption;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Is an elected official of the federal Legislative Branch, as defined in 2 U.S.C. § 30a;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Is an active duty member of the armed forces exempted in accordance with 10 U.S.C. § 982; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Is a member of the organized militia exempted in accordance with § 13-218 of the Public Safety Article.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="8-309" title_number="8" title_name="Juries and Jurors" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Prospective and Qualified Jurors">
    <text>An individual who is not disqualified, excused, or exempted under Part I of this subtitle is a qualified juror.</text>
  </section>
  <section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="8-310" title_number="8" title_name="Juries and Jurors" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Prospective and Qualified Jurors">
    <level label="a">
      <level label="1">
        <text>At each interval set in a jury plan for a county, its jury commissioner shall have names of qualified jurors selected in the number that the jury commissioner decides will satisfy the needs for jury service during the interval.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>Subject to § 8-421 of this title, a jury commissioner shall have enough names selected to allow parties to make peremptory challenges as allowed under this title or otherwise provided in the Maryland Rules.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>Names selected under this section constitute a qualified juror pool.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="c">
      <level label="1">
        <text>Subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection, a jury commissioner shall allocate names from the qualified juror pool to grand and trial juries as the jury plan provides.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>Except as needed to complete service in a particular case or as otherwise provided in a jury plan, an individual may not be required, in any 3–year period, to serve or attend court for jury service more than once.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="8-311" title_number="8" title_name="Juries and Jurors" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Prospective and Qualified Jurors">
    <text>At the request of a trial judge, a jury commissioner may distribute to qualified jurors a questionnaire with regard to any matter, including a conviction or pending civil jury trial that may be a basis for disqualification as a juror in a particular case.</text>
  </section>
  <section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="8-314" title_number="8" title_name="Juries and Jurors" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Prospective and Qualified Jurors">
    <level label="a">
      <text>A jury commissioner shall document each addition or other change to information provided under this subtitle and each decision with regard to disqualification, exemption, or excusal from, or rescheduling of, jury service.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>The jury commissioner of a county shall inform its jury judge of changes to information as provided in the county’s jury plan.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="c">
      <text>The jury commissioner of a county shall keep each record that the jury commissioner has used in connection with the jury service in accordance with the records retention and disposal schedule of the county.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
</subtitle>