DISQUALIFICATION OF JURORS
Act 129 of 1867
AN ACT rendering persons disqualified for sitting as jurors in certain cases.
History: 1867, Act 129, Eff. June 27, 1867
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
725.252 Juror in justice or police court or coroner's inquest in Wayne county; former service as disqualification or cause of challenge.
Sec. 2.
No person shall be qualified to sit as a juror in any justice or police court of Wayne county, or on an inquest before any coroner, who has already sat as a juror in said justice or police court, or on an inquest before said coroner, more than 3 times during the calendar year next preceding the time when he is summoned or offered as a juror on said court, or on said inquest. And it shall be the duty of justices of the peace, and police justices and coroners, to enforce and carry out the provisions of this law, and to discharge any such juror. It shall be a good cause of challenge, over and above all challenges otherwise allowed by law, that any person summoned or offered as a juror, shall have acted as juror in the same tribunal or court, more than 3 times during the prior calendar year.
History: 1867, Act 129, Eff. June 27, 1867
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CL 1871, 6044
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How. 7583
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CL 1897, 347
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CL 1915, 14592
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CL 1929, 16545
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CL 1948, 725.252
Compiler's Notes: This section was expressly excepted from repeal by Act 314 of 1915.
725.254 Juror in justice or police court; former service as cause of challenge.
Sec. 4.
It shall be a good cause of challenge to any juror in any justice or police court in any city, township or village in this state, in addition to the other causes of challenge allowed by law, that such person has served as a juror in any justice or police court in any such city, township or village in this state 2 times within 1 year previous to such challenge.
History: Add. 1869, Act 62, Eff. July 5, 1869
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CL 1871, 6046
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How. 7584a
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CL 1897, 349
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Am. 1907, Act 316, Eff. Sept. 28, 1907
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CL 1915, 14593
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CL 1929, 16546
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CL 1948, 725.254
Compiler's Notes: This section was expressly excepted from repeal by Act 314 of 1915.
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