People v. Hewitt

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Del Guidice, J.), rendered May 25, 2010, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree and reckless endangerment in the first degree, upon a juiy verdict, and imposing sentence.

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

A prospective juror may be challenged for cause on the ground *1359that “[h]e [or she] has a state of mind that is likely to preclude him [or her] from rendering an impartial verdict based upon the evidence adduced at the trial” (CPL 270.20 [1]…