People v. Bruno

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Barbara Newman, J.), rendered June 10, 1999, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of 25 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly replaced a sworn juror after learning from a court officer that the juror had called and stated that she would be absent because of the death of her mother. We *229reject defendant’s argument that this constituted an improper delegation of the court’s responsibility to make a “reasonably thorough inquiry” concerning a juror’s unavailability (CPL 270.35…