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Challenging compliance with selection procedures - 42 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 4526

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     § 4526.  Challenging compliance with selection procedures.
        (a)  Challenge to array.--Within ten days after publication
     of the array a party to a matter on a then published list of
     cases scheduled for jury trial may petition the court to stay
     the proceedings in the case where he is a party and to select a
     new jury array, or for other appropriate relief, on the ground
     of failure to substantially comply with this subchapter.
        (b)  Hearing on petition.--At the hearing on the petition
     filed under subsection (a), the moving party is entitled to
     present in support of the petition the testimony of the jury
     commissioners or their clerks, any relevant records and papers
     not public or otherwise available used by the jury commissioners
     or their clerks and any other relevant evidence. If the court
     determines that in selecting persons to fill the array the
     commissioners have failed to substantially comply with this
     subchapter, the court shall stay the proceedings requiring the
     service of jurors pending the selection of a new array in
     conformity with this subchapter or may grant other appropriate
     relief.
        (c)  Exclusive remedy.--Unless and until suspended or
     superseded by general rules, the procedures prescribed by this
     section are the exclusive means by which a person accused of a
     crime, the Commonwealth or a party in a civil case may challenge
     an array of jurors on the ground that the array was not selected
     in conformity with this subchapter.
        (d)  Records.--The contents of any records or papers used by
     the jury commissioners or their clerks in connection with the
     selection process and not made public under this subchapter
     shall not be disclosed (except in connection with the
     preparation or presentation of a petition filed under subsection
     (a)) until after the list of qualified jurors or jury wheel has
     been emptied and refilled and all persons selected to serve as
     jurors before the list of qualified jurors or jury wheel was
     emptied have been discharged.
        (e)  Challenge to panel of jurors.--A jury panel for the
     trial of any case may be challenged only on the grounds that it
     was not selected at random from the array. Such challenge must
     be made by a party immediately after the panel of jurors has
     been selected by the administrative staff of the court and
     before interrogation of jurors commences.
        (f)  Other challenges.--Nothing in this subchapter shall
     affect the existing practice with respect to peremptory
     challenges and challenges for cause.

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