AB 1708, as introduced, Alejo. Jurors: peace officer exemption.
Existing law excludes certain peace officers from voir dire in civil and criminal matters, and other specified peace officers from voir dire in criminal matters.
This bill would exclude additional peace officers, including certain parole officers, probation officers, deputy probation officers, board coordinating parole agents, correctional officers, transportation officers of a probation department, and other employees of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the State Department of Mental Health, and the Board of Parole Hearings, from voir dire in civil and criminal matters.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 219 of the Code of Civil Procedure is
2amended to read:
(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the jury
4commissioner shall randomly select jurors for jury panels to be
5sent to courtrooms for voir dire.
P2 1(b) (1) Notwithstanding subdivision (a),begin delete noend deletebegin insert aend insert peace officer, as
2defined in Section 830.1, subdivision (a) of Section 830.2,begin delete andend delete
3 subdivision (a) of Section 830.33,begin insert or subdivision (a) or (b) of
4Section 830.5end insert
of the Penal Code, shallbegin insert notend insert be selected for voir dire
5in civil or criminal matters.
6(2) Notwithstanding subdivision (a),begin delete noend deletebegin insert aend insert peace officer, as
7defined inbegin delete subdivisionsend deletebegin insert subdivisionend insert (b)begin delete andend deletebegin insert orend insert (c) of Section 830.2
8of the Penal Code, shallbegin insert
notend insert be selected for voir dire in criminal
9matters.
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