People v. Ortiz

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bonnie G. Wittner, J.), rendered December 23, 2008, as amended January 8, 2009, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of four counts of burglary in the second degree and four counts of criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to an aggregate term of 16 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s challenge for cause to a prospective juror. Although the panelist used language such as “try,” he gave the requisite assurance that his friendship…