Section 360.25. Trial jury; challenge for cause of an individual juror

1.  A  challenge  for cause is an objection to a prospective member of
  the jury and may be made only on the ground that:
    (a) He does not have the qualifications required by the judiciary law;
  or
    (b) He has a state of  mind  that  is  likely  to  preclude  him  from
  rendering  an  impartial  verdict based upon the evidence adduced at the
  trial; or
    (c) He is related within the sixth degree by consanguinity or affinity
  to the defendant, or to  the  person  allegedly  injured  by  the  crime
  charged, or to a prospective witness at the trial, or to counsel for the
  people or for the defendant; or that he is or was a party adverse to any
  such person in a civil action; or that he has complained against or been
  accused  by  any such person in a criminal action; or that he bears some
  other relationship to any such person of such nature that it  is  likely
  to preclude him from rendering an impartial verdict; or
    (d)  He  is  to  be  a  witness  at the trial; or where a prosecutor's
  information was filed at the direction of a grand jury, he was a witness
  before the grand jury or at the preliminary hearing; or
    (e) He or she served on a trial jury in  a  prior  civil  or  criminal
  action  involving  the  same  incident  charged; or where a prosecutor's
  information was filed at the direction of a grand jury, he or she served
  on the grand jury which directed such filing.
    2. All issues of fact or questions of law  arising  on  the  challenge
  must be tried and determined by the court. The provisions of subdivision
  two  of section 270.20 with respect to challenges are also applicable to
  the selection of a trial jury in a local criminal court.