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2018 Georgia Code 15-12-20 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)
O.C.G.A. 15-12-20 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 15-12-20

TITLE 15 COURTS

Section 12. Juries, 15-12-1 through 15-12-172.

ARTICLE 2 BOARD OF JURY COMMISSIONERS

15-12-20 through 15-12-24.

Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 2014, p. 451, § 7/HB 776, effective July 1, 2014.

Editor's notes.

- This article was based on Ga. L. 1878-79, p. 27, §§ 1-3; Ga. L. 1880-81, p. 124, § 1; Code 1882, §§ 3910a-3910c; Ga. L. 1882-83, p. 101, §§ 1-2; Ga. L. 1887, p. 52, § 1; Penal Code 1895, §§ 813-814, 816, 1109; Ga. L. 1899, p. 78, § 1; Ga. L. 1901, p. 43, § 1; Penal Code 1910, §§ 813- 815, 817, 1138; Code 1933, §§ 59-101-59-105; Ga. L. 1935, p. 151, § 1; Ga. L. 1941, p. 344, § 1; Ga. L. 1951, p. 693, § 1; Ga. L. 1974, p. 388, § 1; Ga. L. 1975, p. 826, § 1; Ga. L. 1982, p. 548, §§ 1, 2; Ga. L. 1982, p. 1230, §§ 1, 2; Ga. L. 1984, p. 22, § 15; Ga. L. 1985, p. 887, § 1; Ga. L. 1992, p. 1692, § 1; Ga. L. 1995, p. 1292, § 3; Ga. L. 2011, p. 59, §§ 1-12, 1-14/HB 415; Ga. L. 2012, p. 775, § 15/HB 942.

Ga. L. 2014, p. 862, § 8/HB 1078, purported to amend paragraph (b)(2) of Code Section 15-12-23; however, due to the earlier repeal of this Code section, this amendment has not been given effect.

Cases Citing O.C.G.A. § 15-12-20

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Pope v. State, 345 S.E.2d 831 (Ga. 1986).

Cited 182 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Jul 16, 1986 | 256 Ga. 195

...Nor do we find any violation of OCGA § 15-12-42, which applies to the selection of trial jurors. Nor can we agree with Pope's further contention that this case must be reversed because at the time the venire was drawn there were only four jury commissioners in Cobb County. Although OCGA § 15-12-20 prescribes six-member boards of jury commissioners, it also provides that the court can by rule establish a board having less than six members....
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Presnell v. State, 551 S.E.2d 723 (Ga. 2001).

Cited 25 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Jul 16, 2001 | 274 Ga. 246, 2001 Fulton County D. Rep. 2230

...pravity of mind). 2. Presnell challenged the composition of the Cobb County Board of Jury Commissioners, which authorized Presnell's jury pool, on the basis that the board was composed of only five members instead of the six members required by OCGA § 15-12-20. Presnell has failed to show reversible error in the five-member composition of the board. See Pope v. State, 256 Ga. 195(1)(c), 345 S.E.2d 831 (1986) (requiring a showing of such disregard of the essential and substantial provisions of OCGA § 15-12-20 as would vitiate the jury arrays); Dillard v. State, 177 Ga.App. 805(4), 341 S.E.2d 310 (1986) (provisions of statute are merely directory and were not intended to vest procedural rights in criminal defendants). Moreover, OCGA § 15-12-20(c) allows for each county to establish a lesser number of jury commissioners by local rule, and the trial court found that Cobb County had indeed promulgated such a rule requiring only five jury commissioners which, contrary to Presnell's contention, was not repealed or otherwise set aside....
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Foster v. State, 701 S.E.2d 189 (Ga. 2010).

Cited 11 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Nov 1, 2010 | 288 Ga. 98, 2010 Fulton County D. Rep. 3491

...for jury lists. Id. Accordingly, these arguments have no merit. (b) Foster asserts that the traverse jury source list was compiled by a board of jury commissioners that was comprised of only five members, rather than six members as directed by OCGA § 15-12-20....
...195, 197(1)(c), 345 S.E.2d 831 (1986), overruled on other grounds by Nash v. State, 271 Ga. 281, 519 S.E.2d 893 (1999). See also Sealey v. State, 277 Ga. 617, 619(2), 593 S.E.2d 335 (2004). To the extent that Foster argues that the failure to have the commission composed of six members as called for by OCGA § 15-12-20 constitutes a violation of the Sixth or Fourteenth Amendments, he fails to show that the five-member jury commission established a jury source list that did not represent a fair cross-section of the community, or that the list was the product of intentional discrimination....
...for not less than one nor more than 20 years. For the purposes of this Code section, the term "railroad car" shall also include trailers on flatcars, containers on flatcars, trailers on railroad property, or containers on railroad property. [3] OCGA § 15-12-20 reads: (a) In each county there shall be a board of jury commissioners, whose members shall be discreet persons who are not practicing attorneys at law nor county officers, who shall be appointed by the chief judge of the superior court....
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Clark v. State, 338 S.E.2d 269 (Ga. 1986).

Cited 10 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Jan 8, 1986 | 255 Ga. 370

...The appellant's complaint is that Mr. Ralph Phillips served as a county jury commissioner notwithstanding the fact that he is employed by the county as a deputy sheriff and jury bailiff. [3] The appellant argues that Mr. Phillips' service as a jury commissioner contravened OCGA § 15-12-20 (a), which prohibits county officers from serving on the county board of jury commissioners....
...Therefore, we conclude that the appellant has not made out a prima facie case to support his jury challenge. E.g., Barrow v. State, 239 Ga. 162 (2) (236 SE2d 257) (1977). [8] *374 As previously stated, the appellant also argues that Mr. Ralph Phillips' service as a jury commissioner contravened the requirement of OCGA § 15-12-20, supra, that county officers not serve on the county board of jury commissioners....
...Phillips became employed by the county in 1978, and he was hired by the Walker County Commissioner of Roads and Revenues. His responsibilities consist of serving process in civil actions and serving as a grand and petit jury bailiff. He occasionally wears a deputy sheriff's uniform. [4] OCGA § 15-12-20 (a) provides, "In each county there shall be a board of jury commissioners, whose members shall be discreet persons who are not practicing attorneys at law nor county officers, who shall be appointed by the chief judge of the superior cou...
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Moody v. State, 888 S.E.2d 109 (Ga. 2023).

Cited 7 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | May 16, 2023 | 316 Ga. 490

...also Foster v. State, 288 Ga. 98, 101 (2) (b) (701 SE2d 189) (2010) (holding that the fact that the master jury list was compiled by a board of jury commissioners that was comprised of only five instead of the six members required by former OCGA § 15-12-20 “[did] not rise to ‘such disregard of the essential and substantial provisions of the statute as would vitiate the arrays’” (citation omitted)); State v....