People v. Bumbury

— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Goldberg, J.), rendered September 24, 1990, convicting him of sodomy in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

On appeal, the defendant argues that reversal of the judgment of conviction is necessary because the trial court, after conducting an in camera interview with a juror in the presence of counsel but in the absence of the defendant, determined that the juror should not be discharged on account of illness. However, the trial court’s questioning of the…