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affidavit or may file a disqualifying " — disqualifying — "certificate with the Board. If the <br />Board member chooses to answer the affidavit, the remaining Board members shall <br />decide whether or not that Board member should be disqualified from proceeding <br />therein. Every affidavit shall state the facts and reasons for the belief that bias or <br />prejudice exists and shall be filed at least ten working days before the date on which the <br />matter will be considered by the Board, or good cause shall be shown for the failure to <br />do so. Board members may disqualify themselves by filing with the Board a certificate <br />that they deem themselves unable for any reason to participate with absolute impartiality <br />in the pending proceeding. " <br />CHAIR: Okay, there's two ways we can do this. Obviously we can have you file an <br />affidavit objecting to us, anybody, on this Board who saw that video, saying that there is <br />prejudice by seeing that video, and then we can respond and then have the Board deal <br />with it —deal with the response that way. Or you can orally state again why you feel any <br />of us who saw the video can't rule on this impartially, and then we can respond that way. <br />How would you like to do it? <br />JOSEPH: I'm fine with doing it orally. <br />CHAIR: Okay. So again, can you state why you— <br />JOSEPH.- - -Yes, I believe that you prejudiced yourself by looking at the video before <br />hearing what I had to say concerning this issue. You went to a source that you knew <br />had —may have had — relevancy in this case and viewed it beforehand. We know in court <br />cases if a juror was to do such a thing in a court case, or even watch news concerning the <br />case, they would have to recuse themselves. I don't see how members of this Board could <br />prejudice themselves before hearing a case that was before them. Now, I would have had <br />no problems if Mr. Ashida asked the Board to view the videotape during this hearing. <br />That way, I would have had an opportunity to explain what may have been cut out of the <br />video tape, I would have had an opportunity to respond to why I said what I said when I <br />did, but you took it upon yourselves to begin this investigation prior to prior to this <br />hearing. <br />CHAIR: Okay— <br />JOSEPH: - -By doing so— <br />CHAIR: - -It's much like— <br />JOSEPH: - -By doing so, you've prejudiced yourselves, and you must recuse yourselves. <br />DILL: Am I prejudiced also? Because I found out about this petition that you filed from <br />Hunter Bishop's blog as well, on the day you filed it, even though that was a violation of <br />Rule 4.13 of confidentiality. So am I therefore prejudiced on this— <br />JOSEPH: - -If you— <br />CHAIR: -- because I found out? <br />17 <br />