O.C.G.A.
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O.C.G.A. § 15-12-137.1 (2019)

Jury service by members of electric membership corporation

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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A member of an electric membership corporation shall not be incompetent, based solely on such membership, to serve as a juror in a case in which the electric membership corporation is a party or is interested; provided, however, that if the judge in such case finds that the nature of the case or that the circumstances surrounding a potential juror’s membership in an electric membership corporation may cause a potential juror to have a bias or prejudice for or against the electric membership corporation in that case, the judge may grant a party’s

motion to disqualify such member for cause.

History

(Code 1981, § 15-12-137.1, enacted by Ga. L. 2009, p. 641, § 1/HB 195.)

Annotations

Law reviews. - For annual survey on trial practice and procedure, see 61 Mercer L. Rev. 363 (2009).

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 2013–2014 · leading case: Brown v. State, 745 S.E.2d 699 (Ga. Ct. App. 2013).
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Brown v. State, 745 S.E.2d 699 (Ga. Ct. App. 2013). · cites it 2× “But under OCGA § 15-12-137.1, with regard to petit jurors, [a] member of an electric membership corporation shall not be incompetent, based solely on such membership, to serve as a juror in a case in which the electric membership corporation is a party or is interested;…”
Brown v. State, 759 S.E.2d 489 (Ga. 2014). · cites it 4× “556 ( 398 SE2d 832 ) (1990) (member of electric membership corporation disqualified from serving as petit juror in case in which corporation had interest) (decided prior to the 2009 enactment of OCGA § 15-12-137.1) with Simpson v. State, 100 Ga.”
Dwight T. Brown v. State (Ga. Ct. App. 2013). · cites it 2× “But under OCGA § 15-12-137.1, with regard to petit jurors, [a] member of an electric membership corporation shall not be incompetent, based solely on such membership, to serve as a juror in a case in which the electric membership corporation is a party or is interested;…”
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