People v. Braxton

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Renee White, J.), rendered April 20, 1998, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of four counts of criminal possession of stolen property in the fourth degree, and sentencing him to concurrent indeterminate prison terms of 2 to 4 years on each count, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded for a new trial.

During voir dire, a prospective juror related that she had been mugged a few years earlier and that no one had been arrested. When the prosecutor asked whether any of the jurors felt they could not be fair, the prospective…