People v. Hill
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Dutchess County (Hillery, J.), rendered December 12, 1988, convicting him of burglary in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The trial court properly exercised its discretion in discharging, prior to the commencement of trial, a sworn juror who had asked to be excused because his father, who was in the hospital and had just been diagnosed as having cancer and a broken hip, was to undergo surgery the following day and there was uncertainty as to whether he would survive…
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