The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- New Jersey
- Level
- Court
- Authority
- N.J. Const. art. VI, sec. 2, para. 3
- Issued
- 2020-03-17 Mar. 17, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-17 through 2020-03-27 (read as 2020-03-17)
- End
- Extended through April 26, 2020 by the First Omnibus Order (NJ-095) and through May 31, 2020 by the Second (NJ-096); virtual grand juries from May-June 2020 (NJ-097); in-person grand jury sessions suspended again Nov. 16, 2020 (NJ-100) (read as 2020-04-26)
- In force
- Mar. 17, 2020 to Apr. 26, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Gathering capCourts and public offices
- Addressees
- all grand juries including the State Grand Jury
- prosecutors and defense counsel
- Functions reached
- CT criminal practice (indictments halted)
- GATH large venire pools cancelled
- Collection
- New Jersey NJ
Operative words
"WHEREAS, New Jersey schools and daycare centers will be closed effective March 18, 2020, which will reduce the number of citizens available for grand jury based on N.J.S.A. 2B:20-10"... "It is ORDERED that effective Tuesday, March 17, 2020 through Friday, March 27, 2020: (1) All grand jury empanelment dates, including for State Grand Jury, are postponed, and new notices will be issued rescheduling grand jury selection for a date after March 27, 2020; and (2) All current grand jury sessions, including for State Grand Jury, are cancelled."
Enforcement
Order of the Supreme Court
Notes
The Court's own recital ties its order to the school and day-care closures: the interconnection the memoranda plead.
Retrieval noteRead from the Internet Archive's raw capture. File slug names jury trials; the order's subject is grand juries (new petit jury trials were suspended by the March 12 and 15, 2020 notices, as the First Omnibus Order recites).