People v. Deschamps

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Nicholas Figueroa, J.), rendered August 8, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 6 to 12 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s claim that the court erred in denying his challenge for cause to a prospective juror who allegedly displayed bias is unpreserved because defendant did not raise the same grounds asserted on appeal, and we reject defendant’s argument that he somehow alerted the court to his present…