N.M. Stat. § 38-5-3
Source for juror selection.
A. Each county clerk shall make available to the secretary of state a database of
registered voters of the clerk's county. The secretary of state shall preserve and make
available to the department of information technology, by electronic media, a database
of New Mexico registered voters, by county, which shall be updated every six months.
The director of the motor vehicle division of the taxation and revenue department shall
make available by electronic media to the department of information technology a
database of driver's license holders in each county, which shall be updated every six
months. The secretary of taxation and revenue shall make available to the department
of information technology, by electronic media, a database of New Mexico personal
income tax filers by county, which shall be updated every six months. The updates shall
occur in June and December.
B. The department of information technology shall program the merger of the
registered voter, driver's license and personal income tax filer databases from each
county to form a master jury database and write a computer program so that a random
selection of jurors can be made. A discrimination shall not be exercised except for the
elimination of persons who are not eligible for jury service. The administrative office of
the courts shall provide specifications for the merging of the registered voter, driver's
license and personal income tax filer databases to form the master jury database. The
master jury database shall be the database that produces the random jury list for the
selection of petit or grand jurors for the state courts.
C. The secretary of veterans' services and the adjutant general of the department of
military affairs shall make available, by electronic media, to the administrative office of
the courts a database of service members who were killed or missing in action during
military service, which shall be updated every six months. The administrative office of
the courts shall remove the names of service members who were killed or missing in
action during military service from the master jury database that produces the random
jury list for the state courts.
D. The court shall, by order, designate the number of potential jurors to be selected
and the date on which the jurors are to report for empaneling. Within fifteen days after
receipt of a copy of the order, the administrative office of the courts shall provide the
random jury list to the court. The department of information technology shall print the
random jury list and jury summons mailer forms within ten days after receiving the
request from the administrative office of the courts. Upon issuance of the order, the
department of information technology shall draw from the most current registered voter,
driver's license and personal income tax filer databases to create the random jury list.
E. The department of information technology may transfer the master jury database
to a court that has compatible equipment to accept such a transfer. The court accepting
the master jury database shall transfer the information to a programmed computer used
for the random selection of petit or grand jurors.