People v. O'Toole

*420Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (John Cataldo, J.), rendered April 29, 2005, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of 14 years, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded for a new trial.

The court improperly denied defendant’s challenge for cause to a prospective juror who stated that 20 years earlier her apartment had been broken into and she was assaulted. When asked whether, as a result of this experience, she would “tend more favorably to determine the…