This provision defines several terms used in the chapter, including clerk, court, juror, jury pool, jury wheel, master jury list, source lists, and related jury-administration terms.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. “Clerk” means clerk of the district court or the clerk’s designee. 2. “Court” means the district court of this state and includes, when the context requires, a judicial officer as defined in section 602.1101. 3. “Electronic data processing system” means an electronic jury management system as designated by the state court administrator. 4. “Identification” means the random drawing of names in a manner immune to any subjective bias so that no recognizable class of the population from which names are being randomly drawn can be purposefully included or excluded. 5. “Juror” means any person identified for service on either the grand or petit jury who attends court when originally instructed to report or is deferred to a future date uncertain, or is on-call and available to report to court when so needed and so requested by the court. 6. “Jury pool” means the sum total of prospective jurors reporting for service. 7. “Jury wheel” means a physical device or electronic data processing system for storage of the names and addresses or identifying numbers of prospective jurors. 8. “Master jury list” means the list of names taken from the source lists for possible jury service. 9. “Motor vehicle operators list and nonoperators identification list” means the official records maintained by the state of the names and addresses of those individuals in the respective counties retaining valid motor vehicle driver’s licenses or nonoperator’s identification cards. 10. “Panel” means those jurors drawn or assigned for service to a courtroom, judge, or trial. 11. “Person with a disability” means a person who is not physically able to operate a motor vehicle or use public transportation without assistance due to a physical disability. 12. “Source lists” means the voter registration list, the motor vehicle operators list, the nonoperators identification list, and other comprehensive lists of persons residing in a county as identified pursuant to section 607A.22. 13. “Term of service” means the period of time a juror is requested to serve. 14. “Voter registration list” means the official records maintained by the state of names and addresses of persons registered to vote. 86 Acts, ch 1108, §11; 87 Acts, ch 85, §1, 2; 90 Acts, ch 1233, §37; 96 Acts, ch 1163, §1; 96 Acts, ch 1219, §31; 2017 Acts, ch 133, §10 – 12 Referred to in §720.4