People v. Clarke

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Budd Goodman, J.), rendered December 9, 1999, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal contempt in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of IV2 to 3 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s challenge for cause to a prospective juror who initially expressed difficulty in presuming a defendant innocent in a domestic violence case involving the violation of an order of protection. The court took appropriate corrective action (see, People v Bludson, 97 NY2d 644, 645-646) by…