People v. Christian

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Robert Cohen, J.), rendered June 15, 1989, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of manslaughter in the first degree, and sentencing him to a term of &V¡ to 25 years, unanimously affirmed.

The trial court properly exercised discretion in refusing to discharge a juror who became ill with symptoms of methadone withdrawal during jury deliberations after the alternate jurors had already been dismissed, the court having determined, after conducting three thorough inquiries of the juror and court and hospital personnel, in the presence and with the…