Abstract
In 2021, the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) obtained grant funding from the State Justice Institute to assess the inclusiveness, representativeness, and accuracy of the juror source lists for Missouri, New Jersey, and Tennessee and the resulting master jury lists for Missouri and Tennessee. Each jurisdiction volunteered to be part of the project. For its analyses of inclusiveness, the NCSC compared the total number of records on the master jury list with the total number of adult residents in each county reported by the U.S. Census Bureau on the 2020 Census. To assess the accuracy of address records generally for different types of juror source lists, the NCSC contracted with Anchor Computer, Inc. (Anchor), an NCOALink Full Service Provider, to verify the accuracy of mailing addresses. For the assessment of representativeness, the NCSC employed the jurisprudential framework outlined in Duren v. Missouri. Specifically, it measured the absolute and comparative disparities of distinctive racial and ethnic groups between the jury-eligible population and the master jury list.
This abstract has been taken from the authors' introduction.
Document Type
Report
Publication Date
2022
Publication Information
National Center for State Courts (2022)
Repository Citation
Hannaford-Agor, Paula; Hamilton, Miriam; and Bailey, Erika, "Eliminating Shadows and Ghosts: Findings from a Study of Inclusiveness, Representativeness, and Record Accuracy in Master Jury Lists and Juror Source Lists in Three States" (2022). Faculty Publications. 2375.
https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facpubs/2375