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Rule 242 – Providing Prospective Jurors for Statewide of Regional Investigating Grand Juries

May 14, 2021 | Criminal Procedure, Pennsylvania

The following procedure shall be applicable in each county that under these rules, is to supply prospective jurors for a statewide or regional investigating grand jury:

(1) Such prospective jurors shall be drawn and summoned in the same manner as provided by law for other juries.
(2) The voir dire of such prospective jurors shall be conducted by the supervising judge of the investigating grand jury, or the supervising judge may request that the president judge of the county, conduct the voir dire, or that the president judge designate another judge of the county to conduct the voir dire.
(3) The names of any such prospective jurors forwarded to the Court Administrator of Pennsylvania shall include only those prospective jurors who have undergone such voir dire.

234 Pa. Code ยง 242

Committee Explanatory Reports:

Final Report explaining the March 1, 2000 reorganization and renumbering of the rules published with the Court’s Order at 30 Pa.B. 1478 (March 18, 2000) .