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Senate advances constitutional amendment and statute changes to preserve jury‑size rules
Summary
Senators amended and advanced SJR 7 to preserve minimum jury sizes (12 for capital cases, eight for felonies, four for lesser cases) and passed companion statutory changes in SB 53 to align practice with the proposed constitutional language.
The Utah Senate on Jan. 19 adopted a floor amendment to SJR 7 — a proposed constitutional amendment intended to facilitate court consolidation — to preserve minimum jury sizes and moved that measure to the third‑reading calendar along with statutory conforming changes.
Senator Steiner proposed the amendment to ensure the measure would not remove an existing constitutional guarantee of at least eight jurors in felony cases. "I propose…
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