It is the policy of this state that all persons selected for jury service be selected at random from a fair cross section of the population of the area served by the court, and that all qualified citizens have the opportunity in accordance with this chapter to be considered for jury service in this state and an obligation to serve as jurors when summoned for that purpose. A citizen shall not be excluded from jury service in this state on account of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or economic status.
Miss. Code Ann. § 13-5-2
Public policy stated
Applied in 11 court decisions — leading case 721 So. 2d 590 - Thorson v. State (1998)
Most recently applied in 911 So. 2d 951 - Yarbrough v. State (September 2005)
Laws, 1974, ch 378, § 1, eff from and after Jan. 1, 1975.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.