Full Text of SB0977 98th General Assembly
SB0977sam001 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Sen. Iris Y. Martinez Filed: 3/17/2014
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 977
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 977 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The Jury Act is amended by changing Section 2 | 5 | | as follows:
| 6 | | (705 ILCS 305/2) (from Ch. 78, par. 2)
| 7 | | Sec. 2.
At the September meeting of the county board in | 8 | | each year in the
respective counties in this State, except | 9 | | those that have
jury
commissioners, the board shall select from | 10 | | the
list
the number of persons
as the judges of the circuit | 11 | | courts, to be held in the county
during the
succeeding year, | 12 | | may by joint action determine to serve as petit jurors. In
| 13 | | counties having jury commissioners, the persons to serve as | 14 | | petit jurors
shall be selected by the jury commissioners, as | 15 | | provided by law. County
boards, a jury administrator,
and jury
| 16 | | commissioners may utilize
the services of the
Administrative |
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| 1 | | Office of the Illinois Courts in making these selections.
| 2 | | Jurors in all counties in Illinois must have the legal | 3 | | qualifications
herein prescribed. Jurors must be:
| 4 | | (1) Inhabitants of the county.
| 5 | | (2) Of the age of 18 years or upwards.
| 6 | | (3) Free from all legal exception, of fair character, of
| 7 | | approved
integrity, of sound judgment, well informed, and able | 8 | | to understand
the English language, whether in spoken or | 9 | | written form , or interpreted into
sign language , or, if English | 10 | | is not the juror's predominant language, interpreted or | 11 | | translated into the juror's predominant language .
| 12 | | (4) Citizens of the United States of America.
| 13 | | (Source: P.A. 90-482, eff. 1-1-98.)
| 14 | | Section 10. The Jury Secrecy Act is amended by changing | 15 | | Section 1 as follows:
| 16 | | (705 ILCS 315/1) (from Ch. 78, par. 36)
| 17 | | Sec. 1.
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), whoever | 18 | | knowingly
and wilfully, by any device or means whatsoever
| 19 | | records or attempts to record, the proceedings of a petit jury | 20 | | in any court
of the State of Illinois while the jury is | 21 | | deliberating or voting,
or
listens to or observes, or attempts | 22 | | to listen to or observe, the
proceedings of any petit jury of | 23 | | which he is not a member in any court of
the State of Illinois | 24 | | while the jury is deliberating or voting,
shall be
guilty of a |
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| 1 | | Class A misdemeanor.
However, if any juror is deaf or hard of | 2 | | hearing or any juror's predominant language is not English , the | 3 | | juror may be
accompanied by and may communicate with a court | 4 | | appointed interpreter
throughout any period during which the | 5 | | jury is sequestered or engaged in its
deliberations.
If the | 6 | | jury foreman reasonably
believes that the interpreter is doing | 7 | | more than interpreting, nothing in this
Act shall prevent him | 8 | | or her from petitioning the court and requesting that the
| 9 | | interpreter be replaced with another interpreter.
| 10 | | (b) A petit juror in any court of the State of Illinois
| 11 | | shall be entitled to take notes in
connection with and solely | 12 | | for the purpose of assisting him in the
performance of his | 13 | | duties as juror, and the sheriff of the county
in which such | 14 | | juror is serving shall provide writing materials for that
| 15 | | purpose. Such notes shall remain confidential, and shall be | 16 | | destroyed by
the sheriff after the verdict has been returned or | 17 | | a mistrial declared.
| 18 | | (Source: P.A. 88-27.)".
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