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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 3 (2026)

Drawing and summoning of grand jurors

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Section 3. Grand jurors shall be drawn, summoned and returned in the same manner as traverse jurors; and, if drawn at the same time with traverse jurors, the number of persons required whose names are first drawn shall be returned as grand jurors, and those whose names are afterward drawn shall be returned as traverse jurors. In Middlesex county, the selection and management of grand jurors shall be governed by chapter two hundred and thirty-four A and other applicable provisions of the General Laws.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 1975–1984 · leading case: Commonwealth v. Duteau, 424 N.E.2d 1119 (Mass. 1981).
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Commonwealth v. Duteau, 424 N.E.2d 1119 (Mass. 1981). · cites it 3× “The second is whether that jury, if they do have the power so to indict, is a valid jury under G. L. c. 277, § 3, and the Massachusetts and United States Constitutions, when neither the pool from which the indicting grand jury was drawn nor any other Franklin County grand jury…”
Commonwealth v. Aponte, 462 N.E.2d 284 (Mass. 1984). “Under G. L. c. 277, § 3, as amended by St. 1977, c.”
Brunson v. Commonwealth, 337 N.E.2d 895 (Mass. 1975). “By G. L. c. 277, § 3, grand jurors are “drawn, summoned and returned in the same manner as traverse jurors,” and from the same basic jury lists.”
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