People v. Steele

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Gerald Sheindlin, J., at hearings, trial and sentence), rendered September 14, 1988, which convicted defendant, after a jury trial, of third degree robbery and sentenced him, as a second felony offender, to an indeterminate prison term of 3 Vi to 7 years, is unanimously affirmed.

At the start of trial, one of the selected jurors failed to appear. When a telephone call was placed to the missing juror’s home, it was learned that the juror and his wife had left their home (also in The Bronx) at 9:30 a.m. for an unknown destination. When the juror still had…