The court's decision to permit the prosecutor to exercise a peremptory challenge after defendant had completed his challenges does not warrant reversal. Where the record clearly establishes that the prosecutor genuinely made a mistake in striking the wrong juror, where defendant did not himself waste a challenge on the subject juror and where defendant took advantage of the court's offer to change his own challenges, the benefits conferred by CPL 270.15 (2) were not significantly...
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