People v. Negron

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Starkey, J.), rendered March 31, 1993, convicting him *589of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that he was denied his statutory right to exercise peremptory challenges because the trial court seated a prospective juror whom his counsel had sought to eliminate. This issue is unpreserved for appellate review (see, CPL 470.05 [2]), and, in any event, it was waived when defense counsel withdrew…