A judge can’t preside over his daughter’s trial. A juror can’t decide the facts of his grandfather’s lawsuit. And Aunt Josephine can’t sit on a grand jury weighing whether to indict her nephew.
But House Bill 207 would cut the genealogical research off at that level, a third degree of kinship that triggers automatic disqualification as a party’s judge, juror or grand juror. The current law bars judges and jurors from being as close as a sixth degree of kinship to a party, such as second cousins in which grandparents are siblings, or first cousins twice removed.
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