People v. Pineda

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Cooperman, J.), rendered July 29, 1997, convicting him of robbery in the first degree (two counts), robbery in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant’s contention, he was not denied his constitutional and statutory rights to a trial by a jury in *611whose selection he had a voice by the dismissal of a sworn juror…