Opinion
No. 2005-00600.
November 28, 2006.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Guzman, J.), rendered January 6, 2005, convicting him of course of sexual conduct against a child in the first degree (two counts), rape in the second degree (18 counts), and rape in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Before: Adams, J.P., Goldstein, Fisher and Lifson, JJ., concur.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The trial court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in denying the defendant's challenge for cause to a prospective juror, whose former relative was the victim of sexual abuse, since the prospective juror gave an unequivocal assurance that she could be fair and impartial ( see People v Arnold, 96 NY2d 358, 363; People v Nowlin, 297 AD2d 554; People v Cherry, 286 AD2d 913).
The sentence imposed was not excessive ( see People v Suitte, 90 AD2d 80).