People v. Richards

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Robert Seewald, J.), rendered September 18, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of manslaughter in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 5 to 15 years, unanimously affirmed.

The trial court properly determined that a sworn juror was grossly unqualified. Despite several inquiries by the court during voir dire, the juror withheld information about her criminal case that was pending in the same court building. After a thorough inquiry, the court reasonably concluded…