Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
Contrary to the defendant's assertion, the trial court properly denied the defendant's motion to disqualify a juror disturbed by the presence of hypodermic needles at trial in view of the fact that the juror's son had died from a drug overdose two months earlier. CPL 270.35 states that if, after the jury is sworn but before it renders a verdict, the court finds that a juror is "grossly unqualified to serve", that juror must be...
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