PEOPLE v. BUDD


255 A.D.2d 390 (1998)

681 N.Y.S.2d 51

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Floyd Budd, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

November 9, 1998


Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered.

The trial court erred in denying the defendant's challenge for cause with respect to a juror who stated that if somebody was accused of a crime, "that person would need to say, I wasn't here. I was there or I couldn't have done this because I did thus and such" (see, CPL 270.20 [1] [b]; People v Blyden, 55 N.Y.2d 73). On the record before...

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