challenge to the array

A legal challenge to the manner in which the entire jury panel was selected, usu. for a failure to follow prescribed procedures designed to produce impartial juries drawn from a fair cross-section of the community.

• Such a challenge is either a principal challenge (if some defect renders the jury prima facie in-competent, as where the officer selecting veniremembers is related to the prosecutor or defendant) or a challenge for favor (as where the defect does not amount to grounds for a principal challenge, but there is a probability of partiality).

— Also termed challenge to the jury array. [Cases: Jury 114. C.J.S. Juries §§ 355, 359, 443–444.]

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