Court Opinion

ID: 6077922
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 18:28:38.998401+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:53:05.317792
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—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Spires, J.), rendered July 7, 1999, convicting him of burglary in the second degree and petit larceny, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
*782Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The trial court’s discharge of a missing juror was supported both procedurally and substantively by CPL 270.35 (2). The trial court waited for more than two hours and engaged in a reasonably thorough inquiry as to the juror’s whereabouts before applying the statutory presumption of unavailability (see, People v Jeanty, 94 NY2d 507).
The defendant’s remaining contention is unpreserved for appellate review and, in any event, is without merit. Goldstein, J. P., McGinity, H. Miller and Townes, JJ., concur.