Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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. ( Such a challenge is either a principal challenge (if some defect renders the jury prima facie incompetent, as where the officer selecting venire members 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.