People v. Jackson

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Dorothy Cropper, J., at preliminary proceedings; Renee White, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered November 26, 2002, convicting defendant of robbery in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second and third degrees, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to an aggregate term of 17 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s challenge for cause to a prospective juror. Contrary to defendant’s assertion, the panelist evinced an understanding of the jury’s role in assessing the…