People v. Wallace

The court properly denied defendant’s challenge for cause to a prospective juror. The mere making of a challenge for cause, which asserted other grounds, did not preserve defendant’s specific claim that the panelist’s experience as a crime victim may have affected her impartiality (see e.g. People v Deschamps, 256 AD2d 13 [1st Dept 1998], lv denied 93 NY2d 923 [1999]), and we decline to review it in the interest of justice. As an alternative holding, we find that when the panelist’s responses are viewed as a whole, they provide the requisite assurance of *414impartiality, which was sufficient to…