California Code of Civil Procedure

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TITLE 3.  PERSONS SPECIALLY INVESTED
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Chapter 1. 
Trial Jury Selection  and Management Act
Sections  190-237

Chapter 1 Trial Jury Selection  and Management Act
Sections 190-237
 

CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE
SECTION 229

229.  A challenge for implied bias may be taken for one or more of
the following causes, and for no other:
   (a) Consanguinity or affinity within the fourth degree to any
party, to an officer of a corporation which is a party, or to any
alleged witness or victim in the case at bar.
   (b) Standing in the relation of, or being the parent, spouse, or
child of one who stands in the relation of, guardian and ward,
conservator and conservatee, master and servant, employer and clerk,
landlord and tenant, principal and agent, or debtor and creditor, to
either party or to an officer of a corporation which is a party, or
being a member of the family of either party; or a partner in
business with either party; or surety on any bond or obligation for
either party, or being the holder of bonds or shares of capital stock
of a corporation which is a party; or having stood within one year
previous to the filing of the complaint in the action in the relation
of attorney and client with either party or with the attorney for
either party.  A depositor of a bank or a holder of a savings account
in a savings and loan association shall not be deemed a creditor of
that bank or savings and loan association for the purpose of this
paragraph solely by reason of his or her being a depositor or account
holder.
   (c) Having served as a trial or grand juror or on a jury of
inquest in a civil or criminal action or been a witness on a previous
or pending trial between the same parties, or involving the same
specific offense or cause of action; or having served as a trial or
grand juror or on a jury within one year previously in any criminal
or civil action or proceeding in which either party was the plaintiff
or defendant or in a criminal action where either party was the
defendant.
   (d) Interest on the part of the juror in the event of the action,
or in the main question involved in the action, except his or her
interest as a member or citizen or taxpayer of a county, city and
county, incorporated city or town, or other political subdivision of
a county, or municipal water district.
   (e) Having an unqualified opinion or belief as to the merits of
the action founded upon knowledge of its material facts or of some
of them.
   (f) The existence of a state of mind in the juror evincing enmity
against, or bias towards, either party.
   (g) That the juror is party to an action pending in the court for
which he or she is drawn and which action is set for trial before the
panel of which the juror is a member.
   (h) If the offense charged is punishable with death, the
entertaining of such conscientious opinions as would preclude the
juror finding the defendant guilty; in which case the juror may
neither be permitted nor compelled to serve.

 

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