People v. Pough

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Leahy, J.), rendered May 1, 1990, convicting him of murder in the second degree (two counts) and burglary in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

*331The defendant contends that the trial court failed to conduct a "probing and tactful inquiry” (People v Buford, 69 NY2d 290, 299; see, CPL 270.35) of a juror who was notified, during the course of the jury’s deliberations, that his father had suffered a stroke. The juror was permitted, upon consent of both…