People v. Cotton
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: Defendant argues that County Court erred in denying his challenge for cause of a prospective juror on the ground that the juror demonstrated that he could not render an impartial verdict. The portions of the voir dire to which defendant refers, however, were not recorded. Consequently, the record is incomplete and we cannot review that issue.
Defendant failed to preserve for our review his present argument that, by granting a codefendant’s severance motion during the trial, the court denied defendant the right to a jury of his own choosing because he…
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