People v. Brown

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Edwin Torres, J.), rendered January 14, 2003, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 8 to 16 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s challenge for cause to a prospective juror who initially indicated that he might “tend to” credit police testimony. That statement did not “cast serious doubt on [his] ability to render an impartial verdict” (People *385v Arnold, 96 NY2d 358, 363 [2001]), and, in any…