People v. Johnson

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Rios, J.), rendered September 9, 1999, convicting him of robbery in the second degree and criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

During voir dire, the defendant challenged a prospective juror as biased (see, CPL 270.20 [1] [b]) because she had been present during an armed robbery of a large department store and had a gun held to her face. The defendant argues, among other things, that the trial court improperly…