Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
After the defendant exercised his peremptory challenges and indicated his satisfaction with a venire panel, the Supreme Court should not have permitted the prosecutor to belatedly exercise a peremptory challenge to a still unsworn, prospective juror (see CPL 270.15 [2]; People v Mancuso,
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