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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 2 (2026)

Suffolk county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors

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Section 2. The clerk of the superior court for criminal business in Suffolk county shall, not less than twenty-eight days before the first Mondays of January and July, respectively, issue writs of venire facias for forty-five veniremen of whom thirty-nine shall be from Boston and two each from Chelsea, Revere and Winthrop. From these forty-five veniremen the court shall then select twenty-three grand jurors to serve in said court, who shall serve for each sitting thereof for six months and until another grand jury has been impanelled in their stead.

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Cited in 1 case, 1975–1975 · leading case: Brunson v. Commonwealth, 337 N.E.2d 895 (Mass. 1975).
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Brunson v. Commonwealth, 337 N.E.2d 895 (Mass. 1975). “Common to the argument on both grounds is the fact that under G. L. c. 277, § 2, the city of Boston furnishes thirty-two of the thirty-five veniremen called for the empanelling of each grand jury in Suffolk County, and the further fact, to the extent stipulated in the parties’…”
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