Filed Date: 12/21/2006
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 11/1/2024
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Roger S. Hayes, J.), rendered June 29, 2004, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 4V2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.
The court properly denied defendant’s challenge for cause to a prospective juror who stated unequivocally that his extensive law enforcement background and connections would have no effect on his ability to be impartial (see People v Brown, 26 AD3d 885 [2006], lv denied 6 NY3d 846 [2006]; People v Lopez, 7 AD3d 350 [2004], lv denied 3 NY3d 708 [2004]). The court, which saw and heard the panelist, credited his assurances, and there is no basis for disturbing its determination.
The court responded meaningfully (see People v Almodovar, 62 NY2d 126, 131 [1984]; People v Malloy, 55 NY2d 296, 301-302 [1982], cert denied 459 US 847 [1982]) to the jury’s inquiries as to whether defendant could be found guilty if he was “involved in the sale in a way that is different than the