People v. Blake

OPINION OF THE COURT

Anne G. Feldman, J.

Defendants were convicted after trial of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree.

*348This opinion expands upon the court’s March 1, 1996 oral ruling, denying defendants’ challenge for cause of a prospective juror (juror No. 10 on Mar. 1, 1996).1

The issue, apparently one of first impression, is whether the potential juror’s occupation as a Principal Law Clerk to a Judge makes her ineligible as a matter of law to serve as a juror. Defendants’ grounds for seeking to have the juror dismissed for cause consisted of a conclusory comment that…