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THE RECORD DID NOT DEMONSTRATE A SELECTED UNSWORN JUROR COULD NOT RENDER AN IMPARTIAL VERDICT BECAUSE OF AN OUT-OF-TOWN MEETING ON THE DAY BEFORE THE TRIAL WAS LIKELY TO CONCLUDE, THE PEOPLE’S FOR CAUSE CHALLENGE SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN GRANTED, NEW TRIAL ORDERED (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department, reversing defendant’s conviction, determined the judge should not have granted the People’s for cause challenge to a selected by unsworn juror. Although the juror had an important out-of-town meeting on the day before the trial was to conclude, the record did not demonstrate the juror could not render an impartial verdict on that ground:

The record did not justify the court’s discharge for cause of a selected but unsworn juror. Both defendant and the People initially declined to challenge the juror peremptorily or for cause. However, the prosecutor challenged the juror for cause, over defense objection, after the court, concerned about an important out-of-town meeting that the prospective juror was scheduled to attend on a day before the anticipated conclusion of the trial, announced that it would grant such a challenge. Although subsequent questioning demonstrated that rescheduling the meeting would be inconvenient for the juror, it did not establish that the juror, who never directly asked to be excused for hardship or otherwise, had “a state of mind that [was] likely to preclude him from rendering an impartial verdict based on the evidence adduced at the trial” … . By way of contrast, in People v Williams (44 AD3d 326, 326 [1st Dept 2007], lv denied 9 NY3d 1010]), we found that the selected but unsworn juror at issue was unfit for service because her scheduling conflict involving a funeral “would make it difficult for her to focus on the trial.” Here, the juror’s responses did not establish a sufficient basis to sustain a challenge for cause, which was the only issue presented to and ruled upon by the court. People v Manning, 2020 NY Slip Op 01308, First Dept 2-25-20

 

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