People v. Reid

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Feldman, J.), rendered April 11, 1996, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant’s sole contention is that the trial court erred in denying the defense counsel’s challenge for cause of a juror *431whose brother was a police officer. A challenge to a prospective juror on the ground that the juror has a state of mind that is likely to preclude him or her from rendering an impartial verdict…