People v. Smith

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Lewis Stone, J.), rendered July 16, 2001, 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 572 to 11 years, unanimously affirmed.

Giving deference to the trial court’s ability to observe de*292meaner, we conclude that the court properly granted the People’s challenge for cause to a prospective juror (see People v Williams, 63 NY2d 882, 885 [1984]). Viewed as a whole, the panelist’s responses established that he was too biased against the…