A pair of lawmakers from Houston have filed identical bills in the Texas House and Senate that would outlaw one method that criminal law judges use to pick grand juries.
In the so-called key man system, a judge chooses a group of three to five jury commissioners who are responsible for recruiting qualified candidates to become grand jurors. Judges can also call a jury pool to pick a grand jury in the same way that litigants pick trial juries. In the criminal justice system, grand juries sit for up to six months to hear prosecutors present evidence about crimes and determine whether to indict the alleged criminals.
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