People v. Tanner

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (R. Goldberg, J.), rendered November 16, 1993, convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

We reject the defendant’s contention that he was denied a fair trial by the court’s refusal to discharge a juror after the court learned that the juror recognized two police officers who testified on behalf of the People. During several inquiries into the matter, the juror stated…