Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277 § 2

Current through Chapter 67 of the 2024 Legislative Session
Section 277:2 - Suffolk county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors

The clerk of the superior court for criminal business in Suffolk county shall, not less than twenty-eight days before the first Mondays of January and July, respectively, issue writs of venire facias for forty-five veniremen of whom thirty-nine shall be from Boston and two each from Chelsea, Revere and Winthrop. From these forty-five veniremen the court shall then select twenty-three grand jurors to serve in said court, who shall serve for each sitting thereof for six months and until another grand jury has been impanelled in their stead.

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 2