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KANSAS STATUTES AND CODES
22-3410. Challenges for cause.
22-3410
22-3410. Challenges for cause.(1) Each party may challenge any prospective juror for cause. Challengesfor cause shall be tried by the court.
(2) A juror may be challenged for cause on any of the followinggrounds:
(a) He is related to the defendant, or a person alleged to have beeninjured by the crime charged or the person on whose complaint theprosecution was begun, by consanguinity within the sixth degree, or isthe spouse of any person so related.
(b) He is attorney, client, employer, employee, landlord, tenant,debtor, creditor or a member of the household of the defendant or aperson alleged to have been injured by the crime charged or the personon whose complaint the prosecution was instituted.
(c) He is or has been a party adverse to the defendant in a civilaction, or has complained against or been accused by him in a criminalprosecution.
(d) He has served on the grand jury which returned the indictment oron a coroner's jury which inquired into the death of a person whosedeath is the subject of the indictment or information, or on any otherinvestigatory body which inquired into the facts of the crime charged.
(e) He was a juror at a former trial of the same cause.
(f) He was a juror in a civil action against the defendant arisingout of the act charged as a crime.
(g) He was a witness to the act or acts alleged to constitute thecrime.
(h) He occupies a fiduciary relationship to the defendant or aperson alleged to have been injured by the crime or the person on whosecomplaint the prosecution was instituted.
(i) His state of mind with reference to the case or any of theparties is such that the court determines there is doubt that he can actimpartially and without prejudice to the substantial rights of anyparty.
(3) All challenges for cause must be made before the jury is swornto try the case.
History: L. 1970, ch. 129, § 22-3410; July 1.