PEOPLE v. WILSON


7 A.D.3d 549 (2004)

776 N.Y.S.2d 98

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. JOSEPH WILSON, Appellant.

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

May 3, 2004.


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

The defendant, who is black, argues that the trial court committed reversible error when it refused to discharge for cause a prospective juror who voiced a bias against black people. The juror informed the court that she would not be able to judge the defendant fairly because she and her family had been victims of crimes committed by "people of...

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