People v. Boston

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Robert G. Seewald, J.), rendered March 11, 1991, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of attempted burglary in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of imprisonment of 3-¼ to 6½ years, unanimously affirmed.

During voir dire, the court inquired of the prospective jurors whether any had persons close to them who had been arrested or charged with crimes. One juror, after close questioning by the court and both attorneys, answered that some friends from her youth had been arrested for antiwar demonstrations and for…