§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 […]
§38-37. 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 […]
§38-20. Drawing general panel – Authority of judges – Report for duty.
A. In each county, the judges of the courts of record shall, more than ten (10) days prior to each term of court, determine approximately the number of jurors that are reasonably necessary for jury service in all the courts of record of the county for each jury period during the time the courts may […]
§38-104. Wrongfully or fraudulently procuring signature or removal of signature – Penalty.
Any person who offers any payment of money, any gratuity or prize, or any other thing of value, or makes any statement known by them to be false, and who makes such offer or statement to induce a person to sign or to have his name removed from a petition to impanel a grand jury, […]
§38-20.1. Jury panel – Oath or affirmation.
A. Each member of the general jury panel, when reporting for duty as provided for in Section 20 of this title, shall take and subscribe to an oath or affirmation which shall be in substantially the following form: OATH I, the undersigned, do solemnly swear or affirm that I am a citizen of the United […]