People v. Jacobs

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (John W. Carter, J.), rendered July 23, 2009, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to a term of 20 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s challenge for cause to a prospective juror whose initial responses suggested a predisposition to believe police witnesses. Upon further inquiry, the prospective juror stated repeatedly and unequivocally that she could be fair and impartial, even though some of her responses were phrased as…