Section 908.2 Of Article 4. Impaneling Of Grand Jury From California Penal Code >> Title 4. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 4.
908.2
. (a) Upon the decision of the superior court pursuant to
Section 901 to adopt this method of selecting grand jurors, when the
required number of persons have been impaneled as the grand jury
pursuant to law, the jury commissioner shall write the names of each
person on separate ballots. The jury commissioner shall fold the
ballots so that the names cannot be seen, place them in a box, and
draw out half of the ballots, or in a county where the number of
grand jurors is uneven, one more than half. The persons whose names
are on the ballots so drawn shall serve for 12 months until July 1 of
the following year. The persons whose names are not on the ballots
so drawn shall serve for six months until January 1 of the following
year.
(b) Each subsequent year, on January 2 and July 2, a sufficient
number of grand jurors shall be impaneled to replace those whose
service concluded the previous day. Those persons impaneled on
January 2 shall serve until January 1 of the following year. Those
persons impaneled on July 2 shall serve until July 1 of the following
year. A person may not serve on the grand jury for more than one
year.
(c) The provisions of subdivisions (a) and (b) do not apply to the
selection of grand jurors for an additional grand jury authorized
pursuant to Section 904.6.