Does a juror have any relation to the juror in question?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Reed, 232 Cal.Rptr.3d 81, 4 Cal.5th 989, 416 P.3d 68 (Cal. 2018):
People v. Lancaster (2007) 41 Cal.4th 50, 58 Cal.Rptr.3d 608, 158 P.3d 157 does not support the courts view. There, the juror in question had a nephew who was convicted of robbery murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole, and another nephew who had been imprisoned for drug offenses. ( Id. at pp. 7778, 58 Cal.Rptr.3d 608, 158 P.3d 157.) Further, the defendants
[416 P.3d 97]
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