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Fla. Stat. § 905.08 (2025)
Appointment of foreperson.
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905.08 Appointment of foreperson.—After the grand jury has been impaneled, the court shall appoint one of the grand jurors as foreperson and another to act as foreperson during absence of the foreperson.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4
cases, 1980–1984 · leading case: Bryant v. State, 386 So. 2d 237 (Fla. 1980).
Bryant v. State, 386 So. 2d 237 (Fla. 1980). “§ 905.08, Fla. Stat. (1977). Although appellant has shown that no women or blacks were selected as jury foremen from 1974 to 1978, we refuse to ascribe to the trial courts a conscious, concerted plan not to select foremen from those groups.”
Andrews v. State, 443 So. 2d 78 (Fla. 1983). “§ 905.08, Fla. Stat. (1981). The Florida foreman plays no more significant a part in the proper administration of justice than does the federal grand jury foreman.”
Mattie Lee Bryant v. Louie L. Wainwright, Sec'y, Florida Dep't of Corr., 686 F.2d 1373 (11th Cir. 1982). “Nor does the record disclose the duties of a grand jury foreperson in Palm Beach County, although their statutory responsibilities appear to be only ministerial and relatively unimportant. See Fla.Stat.Ann.”
Palm Beach Newspapers, Inc. v. Doe, 460 So. 2d 406 (Fla. 4th DCA 1984). “075; the court appoints the foreman, Section 905.08; the court extends the term of the grand jury, Section 905.”
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