Opinion
June 19, 1995
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Queens County (Orgera, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
Contrary to the defendant's contention, the trial court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in denying his challenge for cause to a prospective juror. Viewing the prospective juror's statements as a whole (see, People v. Blyden, 55 N.Y.2d 73, 78), these statements do not indicate that the prospective juror possessed "a state of mind that [was] likely to preclude [her] from rendering an impartial verdict" (CPL 270.20 [b]; cf., People v. Punch, 215 A.D.2d 410).
The sentence was not excessive (see, People v. Suitte, 90 A.D.2d 80). Pizzuto, J.P., Hart, Friedmann and Florio, JJ., concur.