Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
We disagree with the defendant's contention that the trial court committed reversible error when it discharged a sworn juror as unavailable and replaced him with an alternate juror, based on an ex parte communication between the court and the juror. Initially, we note that the defendant's claim, made for the first time on appeal, as to the sufficiency of the court's inquiry into the nature of the juror's unavailability...
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