People v. Williams

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Rosenzweig, J.), rendered January 8, 2001, convicting him of assault in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered.

*413Where there is evidence that the state of mind of a prospective juror is likely to preclude him or her from rendering an impartial verdict {see CPL 270.20 [1] [b]), the court must elicit from that…