§38-107. Presentation of certified petition to presiding district judge – Determination of sufficiency – Order.
Upon receipt by the court clerk of a certification of the number of qualified electors who have signed a petition for grand jury, the presiding district judge shall determine whether or not that number meets the requirement of a grand jury petition pursuant to Section 18 of Article II of the Oklahoma Constitution. Should such […]
§38-108. Civil liability of petitioners.
Any person responsible for the creation, drafting or circulating of a grand jury petition may be held liable for civil damages for libel or slander due to any false allegation made in the body of said petition, if such allegations are proven to be made with malice and with an ulterior or illicit purpose. Laws […]
§38-34. Termination, removal or other adverse employment action for employee’s jury service – Use of sick leave or vacation leave – Penalty – Postponement of service.
A. Any person who is summoned to serve as a juror and who notifies his or her employer of such summons within a reasonable period of time after receipt of a summons and prior to his or her appearance for jury duty may not be terminated, removed or otherwise subject to any adverse employment action […]
§38-35. Civil liability – Damages.
Every person, firm or corporation who discharges an employee, causes an employee to be discharged, takes other adverse action against an employee or requires an employee to use sick, annual or vacation leave because of said employee’s absence from employment by reason of said employee’s having been required to serve as a grand, multicounty grand, […]
§38-36. Protections for juror identity.
A. Persons serving as jurors during a trial shall not be asked or required to give their complete residence address or telephone number in the presence of the defendant. B. Names and personal information concerning prospective and sitting jurors shall not be disclosed to the public outside open court, except upon order of the court. […]
§38-37. Adverse action against student for jury service prohibited.
No school, college, university, or other educational institution may take or permit to be taken any adverse academic action against a student because of the student’s service on a grand, multicounty grand, or petit jury. Added by Laws 1996, c. 111, § 1, emerg. eff. April 18, 1996.
§38-101. Grand jury petition – Circulation – Sufficiency.
Beginning November 1, 1989, any person, group of persons or organization desiring to circulate a petition for the impaneling of a grand jury, pursuant to the provisions of Section 18 of Article II of the Oklahoma Constitution shall file a copy of said petition with the court clerk of the county prior to the obtaining […]
§38-102. Order determining sufficiency or insufficiency of petition – Amended petition – Appeal of order.
Within four (4) days, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, following the initial filing of any petition calling for the impaneling of a grand jury, the presiding district judge shall enter an order stating whether the face of the petition contains a reasonably specific identification of areas to be inquired into and sufficient general allegations to […]
§38-19. Generation of names for general panel.
A. The Administrative Director of the Courts shall cause to be generated, from the list of names of all persons who are known to be qualified jurors under the law, the general panel of jurors as required under Section 20 of this title or the list of prospective multicounty grand jurors as required under Section […]
§38-103. Signatures – Time allowed – Requisite number.
Upon the entering of an order determining the petition to be sufficient, or upon the successful appeal of an order determining the petition to be insufficient, the circulators of said petition shall have forty-five (45) days to obtain a sufficient number of signatures to impanel a grand jury. Failure to obtain the requisite number of […]