Okla. Stat. tit. 38, § 38-18.2

A. In lieu of a local plan adopted pursuant to subsection A of

Section 18.1 of Title 38 of the Oklahoma Statutes, each district

court may utilize an approved electronic jury management system

(JMS) authorized by the Administrative Director of the Courts for

the random selection of grand and petit jurors and for the general

administration of the jury process. In any district court where an

approved electronic JMS is implemented, the provisions set forth in

this section shall apply.

B. The clerk of the district court shall manage the jury

selection process, under the supervision and control of the

presiding judge or chief judge or any other district judge acting as

his or her designee. In district courts with a trial court

administrator, the court administrator may be authorized to manage

some or all of the jury selection process, under the supervision and

control of the presiding judge or chief judge or any other district

judge acting as his or her designee. In managing the jury selection

process, the court clerk and the trial court administrator are

authorized to delegate duties to their staff and to utilize the

electronic processes, random selection functionality and data

processing services of the authorized JMS, as may be necessary in

the jury selection and maintenance process.

C. In each district court, the presiding judge or chief judge

or any other district judge acting as his or her designee shall,

more than twenty (20) days prior to each term of court, determine

approximately the number of jurors that are reasonably necessary to

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meet the needs of the district court for each jury term and shall

order the drawing of that number of jurors, either all at one time

or at periodic intervals, in advance of each term as he or she deems

proper.

D. The court clerk or the trial court administrator may utilize

the JMS to randomly draw a sufficient number of names from the

source list provided by the Administrative Director of the Courts,

pursuant to Section 18 of Title 38 of the Oklahoma Statutes, to

satisfy the number of jurors ordered by the judge, including a

margin of extra names sufficient to compensate for the estimated

number that will be unavailable or ineligible. The names drawn

shall comprise the general panel of jurors from which jurors are

selected for service in the district court during the period for

which they are designated to serve. The court clerk or the trial

court administrator may use the JMS to draw jury panels in

accordance with the local district court procedures, including jury

panels for an "on call" jury system or a "trailing" jury system.

The Administrative Director of the Courts, the trial court

administrator and the court clerk shall not disclose, copy or permit

any person to copy any general panel jury list or any portion

thereof except as provided in Section 36 of Title 38 of the Oklahoma

Statutes.

E. The court clerk or the trial court administrator may utilize

the JMS to prepare the summons for jury service and shall cause the

same to be mailed by first-class mail to every person whose name is

drawn for the general jury panel. At the option of the court clerk

or trial court administrator, juror summons may be mailed by the

clerk's office or by a commercial mailing service. The court may

utilize an automated address verification process to avoid mailing

summons to incomplete or invalid addresses or to persons who no

longer reside in the jurisdiction.

F. The court clerk or the trial court administrator may utilize

the JMS to randomly select names of prospective jurors for

assignment to a specific trial or grand jury, collectively referred

to as "case panel". The court clerk or the trial court

administrator shall produce a written list of each case panel, with

the names of the jurors selected for the case panel appearing in a

random sequential order assigned by the JMS. The court and the
or may utilize

the JMS to randomly select names of prospective jurors for

assignment to a specific trial or grand jury, collectively referred

to as "case panel". The court clerk or the trial court

administrator shall produce a written list of each case panel, with

the names of the jurors selected for the case panel appearing in a

random sequential order assigned by the JMS. The court and the

attorneys of record in the case may be provided with a copy of the

written case panel list. No person shall disclose, copy or permit

any other person to copy the list or any portion of the list for

purposes other than jury selection. The judge, court clerk or court

staff may call the individual jurors and alternate jurors to be

impaneled in the case or on a grand jury, one by one, in the order

by which they appear on the written case panel list. Whenever a

juror is dismissed for cause or preemptory challenge, the juror

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whose name next appears on the written list may be called, and this

process shall continue until the jury is sworn or affirmed.

G. Use of an approved electronic JMS shall not be grounds for a

challenge to a juror or a panel based on a material departure or

irregularity from the requirements prescribed by law. Whenever the

court utilizes the approved JMS to randomly select and sequentially

order juror names during any step in the jury selection process, the

laws relating to the selection of grand or petit jurors by use of a

jury wheel, and laws requiring paper ballots drawn from a jury wheel

or a shaken box, including those requirements set forth in Sections

301 through 363 and Sections 591 through 693 of Title 22 of the

Oklahoma Statutes, shall not apply.

H. The court clerk or the trial court administrator may utilize

the JMS for the creation and maintenance of all records and

documents necessary to summon, qualify, manage and pay jurors for

service and may maintain jury records in electronic format utilizing

the data processing methods which are provided in the JMS.

I. Each district court may provide electronic resources,

including but not limited to an automated telephone system and a

website, for jurors to obtain information about their jury service

and submit information to the court.

J. The court may utilize the JMS to prepare and mail juror

questionnaires and may provide for jurors to answer juror

questionnaires either by mail or by the court's website.

K. Nothing in this section shall be construed to minimize or

repeal the authority granted in Section 18.1 of Title 38 of the

Oklahoma Statutes regarding use of an approved electronic method for

jury selection.