People v. Beldres

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Rutledge, J.), rendered December 12, 1996, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, and unlawful possession of a knife, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

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

The defendant’s sole contention on appeal is that the trial court improperly denied his challenge for cause of a prospective juror. We agree. The prospective juror stated…