People v. Bamfield

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Barasch, J.), rendered December 17, 1992, convicting him of attempted robbery in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

*854Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that the trial court erred in discharging a sworn juror as grossly unqualified (CPL 270.35). The record reveals that at the end of the People’s case, a juror informed the court that she was distracted by the similarity between the victim’s name, Charles Staten, and the name of the publishing company, Charles A.…