Opinion
Argued May 29, 2001
June 18, 2001.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Dowling, J.), rendered February 24, 1998, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Andrew C. Fine, New York, N.Y. (Natalie Rea of counsel), for appellant, and appellant pro se.
Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Shulamit Rosenblum of counsel), for respondent.
Before: FRED T. SANTUCCI, J.P., GABRIEL M. KRAUSMAN, LEO F. McGINITY, SANDRA J. FEUERSTEIN, JJ.
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.
The trial court properly refused to grant the defendant's belated peremptory challenge to an unsworn juror after both sides had accepted the juror and the court had begun to entertain challenges regarding the next subgroup of potential jurors (see, CPL 270.15; People v. Alston, 88 N.Y.2d 519; People v. Smith, 277 A.D.2d 178; People v. Phillip, 215 A.D.2d 598).
The defendant received meaningful representation at trial (see, People v. Benevento, 91 N.Y.2d 708; People v. Flores, 84 N.Y.2d 184).
The defendant's remaining contentions, including those raised in his supplemental pro se brief, are unpreserved for appellate review and are, in any event, without merit.
SANTUCCI, J.P., KRAUSMAN, McGINITY and FEUERSTEIN, JJ., concur.