What is the effect of jury selection procedures that unnecessarily narrow the jury?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Mayfield, 14 Cal.4th 668, 60 Cal.Rptr.2d 1, 928 P.2d 485 (Cal. 1997):
Although there was no prejudice on the facts of this case, procedures that unnecessarily narrow the jury pool are disfavored, and courts should strictly adhere to statutory provisions designed to provide criminal defendants with juries constituting as nearly as reasonably possible a random cross-section of the community. (See People v. Wright (1990) 52 Cal.3d 367, 394-395, 276 Cal.Rptr. 731, 802 P.2d 221.)
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