People v. Rodriguez

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Frank Torres, J.), rendered August 19,1993, convicting defendant, after jury trial, of crim*183inal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree (two counts), and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 6 to 12 years on each count, unanimously affirmed.

Giving due deference to the trial court’s unique position for evaluation of the pertinent inquiry, the court properly dismissed for cause a venireperson who expressed his view that certain plainclothes…