Opinion
570709/01.
Decided October 30, 2003.
Defendant appeals from a judgment of the Criminal Court, New York County, rendered June 14, 2001 after a nonjury trial (Gregory Carro, J.) convicting him of menacing in the second degree (Penal Law § 120.14), four counts of menacing in the third degree (Penal Law § 120.15), harassment in the first degree (Penal Law § 240.25), resisting arrest (Penal Law § 120.50), and stalking in the fourth degree (Penal Law § 120.45), and imposing sentence.
Judgment of conviction rendered June 14, 2001 (Gregory Carro, J.) affirmed.
PRESENT: HON. LUCINDO SUAREZ, P.J., HON. WILLIAM P. McCOOE, HON. PHYLLIS GANGEL-JACOB, Justices.
The court properly denied defendant's challenge for cause to a prospective juror who was a "911" dispatcher. The venireperson's connection to law enforcement was not, in itself, a disqualifying relationship under CPL 270.20(1)(c) ( see, People v. Jones, 299 AD2d 283, lv denied 99 NY2d 655), and her unequivocal responses to inquiries as to whether she could critically evaluate police testimony indicated an ability to decide the case impartially ( see, People v. Williams, 63 NY2d 882, 884-885).
Defendant's challenge to the constitutionality of the anti-stalking statute (Penal Law § 120.45), to the extent preserved for review, is without merit ( People v. Stuart, 100 NY2d 412).
This constitutes the decision and order of the court.