People v. Velasquez

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Cooperman, J), rendered July 10, 2008, convicting him of robbery in the second degree, reckless endangerment in the first degree, grand larceny in the fourth degree, assault in the third degree, reckless driving, and leaving the scene of an accident without reporting, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that the Supreme Court should have denied the People’s challenge to a prospective juror for cause. “Prospective jurors who make statements that cast…