People v. Mays

The defendant stands convicted of two gunpoint robberies committed on the evening of February 5, 1985, within a two-block area of Brooklyn. The legal sufficiency of the evidence of the defendant’s guilt is not challenged on appeal.

We find that, contrary to the defendant’s contention, the trial court did not err in refusing to disqualify a sworn juror who expressed "a little uneaspness]” when she realized after deliberations had begun, that she lived in the same area as the defendant. The juror assured the court that this fact did not "affect the case” and was not "a problem”. There was no…