People v. Blanchfield

The District Attorney moves pursuant to section 749-aa of the Judiciary Law for a special jury to try this murder first degree case. Defendant opposes on the ground that the moving affidavit merely sets forth the usual formal averments on such an application; and on the further ground, citing the “Recommendation And Survey Relating to the Abolition Of Special Juries ” contained in the Eighteenth Annual Report of the New York Judicial Council (1952), that the'survey showing imbalances as to occupations, educational qualifications and sex between the special and general jury panels should now,…