People v. Collins

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Eng, J.), rendered January 10, 1992, convicting him of reckless endangerment in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant argues that he is entitled to a new trial because he was not included in side bar conferences during voir dire when prospective jurors were questioned about their knowledge of the case as a result of media coverage it received, and about their pretrial opinions about the case. In People v Sloan (79 NY2d 386), the Court of…