People v. Barksdale

—Judgment, *224Supreme Court, Bronx County (Harold Silverman, J.), rendered October 7, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 44/2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion in denying defense challenges for cause to two prospective jurors where both prospective jurors steadfastly responded to questioning by both the court and counsel with unqualified assurances that they could be fair and impartial and would not give undue…