New York Consolidated Laws, Criminal Procedure Law - CPL § 360.25 Trial jury;  challenge for cause of an individual juror

(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.