People v. Sanchez

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Ann M. Donnelly, J.), rendered June 16, 2011, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree, attempted murder in the second degree, assault in the first degree, and three counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to an aggregate term of 50 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion when it dismissed a selected but unsworn juror whose absence, resulting from a transportation problem, would most likely have delayed…