Florida/Georgia Personal Injury & Workers Compensation

...692 , 42 L.Ed.2d 690 (1975); Duren v. Missouri, 439 U.S. 357 , 99 S.Ct. 664 , 58 L.Ed.2d 579 (1979) 5 A grand jury foreperson in the Florida system is selected and appointed by the presiding circuit judge from the grand jury panel after it has been installed. Fla.Stat.Ann. § 905.08 (West)....

...78 , of course is not determinative of the issue as it pertains to the selection process for grand jury forepersons. In Florida the presiding judge selects a foreperson from the membership of the grand jury once it has been empanelled. Fla.Stat.Ann. § 905.08 (West 1973)....

...Jury Selection Act of 1968. 28 U.S.C. § 1861 et seq. See United States v. Blair, 470 F.2d 331, 337 (5th Cir.1972). [4] It should be noted that grand jury foremen are selected by the court from the jurors assembled after the jury has been empaneled. § 905.08, Fla....

...system. Both are unlike the grand jury foreman in the Tennessee state court system. In Florida, the court selects one of the grand jurors as foreman and another to act as foreman during the absence of the foreman from a randomly selected grand jury. § 905.08, Fla....

...o be present, such as when: the court is called upon to hear a challenge of an individual grand juror or the entire grand jury panel, Section 905.06; the court on its own motion excuses a grand juror, Section 905.075; the court appoints the foreman, Section 905.08; the court extends the term of the grand jury, Section 905.095; the court charges the grand jurors concerning their duties, Section 905.11 and Section 905.18; or the court considers a motion to expunge a grand jury report, Section 905.28....