People v. Thomas

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Ira Globerman, J., at speedy trial motion; Frank Torres, J., at trial and sentence), rendered January 10, 1991, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of reckless endangerment in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to two concurrent terms of from SVi to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.

The trial court properly dismissed a sworn juror as unavail*420able when, after contacting the absent juror’s companion at home, it learned that the juror had not returned home the previous…