Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant contends that he is entitled to a new trial because the court incorrectly dismissed two prospective jurors, one of whom advised the court during voir dire that he was scheduled to undergo long-awaited surgery in two days' time. We disagree and find that the court's dismissals of the prospective jurors were proper exercises of discretion (see generally, People v Page,
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