The record clearly establishes that when the court substituted a grossly unqualified juror with an alternate juror, the jury had not yet assembled in the jury room to deliberate. When the court made it clear that it had not dismissed the alternates and that the jury had not started deliberating, defense counsel did not dispute or object to this finding. Accordingly, inasmuch as the substitution occurred at a stage prior to the commencement of actual deliberations by the jury...
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