Opinion
94S00-1209-MS-527
09-19-2012
IN THE MATTER OF APPROVAL OF THE ANNUAL MASTER LIST FOR JURY POOL ASSEMBLY
Editorial Note:
UNPUBLISHED OPINION
ORDER APPROVING THE 2013 MASTER LIST FOR JURY POOL ASSEMBLY
Brent E. Dickson, Chief Justice
The Jury Committee and the Judicial Technology & Automation Committee ("JTAC") are required to oversee the creation of the Master List for Jury Pool Assembly ("Master List") by order of this Court (Case No. 94S00-0501-MS-19). To create the Master List, the Bureau of Motor Vehicles provided current customer files and the Department of Revenue provided current taxpayer records directly to JTAC. Project staff at JTAC (1) merged these sources and removed identifiable duplicate information thorough social security number or name matching; (2) corrected obvious data entry errors; and (3) removed individuals identified as deceased, underage, non-residents, and non-citizens. The list is then divided into individual county lists.
IT IS, THEREFORE, ORDERED that:
1. The 2013 Master List is approved for use by trial courts as the source from which to compile their jury pool. Counties may, as an alternative, compile their jury pool from the voter registration lists for a county, supplemented with at least one of the following sources: property tax records, telephone directories, and utility customer lists.
2. The Jury Committee and JTAC shall use this process annually and certify the Master List to the Director of the Division of State Court Administration on or about September 1st of each year. The Director shall advise the Supreme Court of the completion of the annual Master List.
3. The Jury Pool Master List project team has worked very closely with the BMV to obtain the necessary data for creation of the master list. In the past, some courts have obtained data for their jury pools directly from the BMV. This practice has been discontinued; courts are to use the Master List created by this project, not contact the BMV directly.
The Clerk of this Court is directed to forward a copy of this Order to the clerk of each circuit court in the state of Indiana; each judge of record; the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, the Department of Revenue, the Indiana Judicial Center; and the Division of State Court Administration. The Clerk is also directed to post this order to the Court's website.
The clerk of each circuit court is directed to provide copies of this Order to the attention of all jury administrators within their respective courts.