People v. Serrano

—Judgment, *220Supreme Court, Bronx County (Robert Straus, J.), rendered May 14, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of 13 years, unanimously affirmed.

After a thorough telephone conversation between the court and a sworn juror who was absent due to illness, the court weighed the relevant factors, including the length and stage of the trial and the status of witnesses, and properly exercised its discretion in discharging the juror over defendant’s objection (see, People v Page, 72 NY2d…