People v. Steele

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (James A. Yates, J.), rendered February 24, 2000, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of rape in the first and third degrees, sexual abuse in the first degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to an aggregate term of 25 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant having decided, after the resettlement of the voir dire transcript (see 8 AD3d 120 [2004]), not to pursue his claim of reversible error in the court’s denial of his for-cause challenge to a prospective…