People v. Harris

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Robert H. Straus, J.), rendered June 7, 2007, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of burglary in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 10 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s challenge for cause to a prospective juror who communicated articulately with the court and counsel in lengthy colloquies, thereby demonstrating a complete command of the English language, but who nevertheless expressed doubts that his knowledge of English was sufficient for jury…