Minnesota Session Laws - 1992, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1992 

                        CHAPTER 453-S.F.No. 2177 
           An act relating to juries; prohibiting exclusion from 
          jury service based on a disability; amending Minnesota 
          Statutes 1990, section 593.32. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 593.32, is 
amended to read: 
    593.32 [PROHIBITION OF DISCRIMINATION.] 
    A citizen shall not be excluded from jury service in this 
state on account of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, 
or economic status, or a physical or sensory disability. 
     Sec. 2.  [CERTAIN CHALLENGES FOR CAUSE.] 
    Nothing in section 1 restricts the right to strike an 
individual from being impaneled on a jury for cause based on a 
showing that a physical or sensory disability will impair the 
juror's ability to try a particular case. 
    Presented to the governor April 10, 1992 
    Signed by the governor April 14, 1992, 4:47 p.m.