HRS §612-5
When a juror must step aside due to a conflict
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗This law says a person cannot serve as a juror in a case if their close relative (up to a third-degree family connection) is a party, or if the juror or that relative has a financial stake in the outcome. It is a narrow rule about juror disqualification.
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The statute, as written — Disqualification by interest
A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
No person shall sit as a juror in any case in which the person's relative by affinity or by consanguinity within the third degree is interested, either as a plaintiff or defendant, or in the issue of which the juror has, either directly or through such relative, any pecuniary interest.
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