Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Henry Valencia, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1995-10-12
Citations: 220 A.D.2d 274
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Henry Valencia, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 220
Pages: 274–275

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Henry Valencia, Appellant.
[632 NYS2d 539]

Opinion:
—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Carol Berkman, J.), rendered December 9, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of grand larceny in the fourth degree and two counts of criminal mischief in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent prison terms of 2 to 4 years on each larceny conviction and 1 year on each criminal mischief conviction, unanimously affirmed.
The trial court properly discharged a juror as grossly unqualified (CPL 270.35) upon the basis of its own observation that the juror had been sleeping during testimony and the juror's admission that she had been sleeping and did not know how much testimony she had missed (People v Russell, 112 AD2d 451; see, People v Rodriguez, 71 NY2d 214, 219). Concur— Rosenberger, J. P., Ellerin, Wallach and Tom, JJ.