Impaneling state grand jury - Selection - Composition
N.D. Cent. Code § 29-10.2-03
in effect29-10.2-03. Impaneling state grand jury - Selection - Composition
The judge granting the order to impanel a state grand jury shall determine the counties from
which the grand jurors are to be selected with due regard for the expense involved and the
inconvenience of travel. The judge granting the order for a state grand jury shall notify the clerk
of district court of each county from which the judge intends to select the members of the state
grand jury. Upon receipt of the notice to impanel a state grand jury, each clerk of district court
shall prepare a list of nine prospective state grand jurors from existing county jury lists in the
manner provided by chapter 27-09.1, and forward the clerk's state grand jury list to the clerk of
district court of the county in which the order to impanel a state grand jury was granted. The
judge granting the order shall impanel the state grand jury from such lists. A state grand jury
must be composed of not less than eight nor more than eleven persons and each grand juror
shall possess the qualifications of jurors within their respective counties as provided by law.
However, not more than one-half of the members may be residents of one county. The members
of the state grand jury must be selected and the foremen appointed in the manner provided by
chapter 29-10.1 and shall serve a term or terms as provided therein.
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