People v Waters
2012 NY Slip Op 00815 [91 AD3d 977]
Jnury 31, 2012
Appellate Division, Second Department
As corrected through Wednesday, February 29, 2012


The People of the State of New York,Respondent,
v
Anthony Waters, Appellant.

[*1]Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Jonathan Garvin of counsel), for appellant.

Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, JohnnetteTraill, and Gretchen Robinson of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Holder, J.),rendered January 25, 2010, convicting him of burglary in the second degree, criminal mischief inthe fourth degree, and petit larceny, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant's argument that his constitutional right to a jury in whose selection he had avoice was violated when the trial court discharged a juror who had plans to travel in the futurebut was not immediately unavailable (see CPL 270.15 [3]) is unpreserved for appellatereview because he failed to raise this specific argument at trial (see People v Wells, 15 NY3d 927,928 [2010], cert denied 565 US —, 132 S Ct 123 [2011]; People v Person, 8 NY3d 973, 974[2007]; People v Graves, 85 NY2d 1024, 1026-1027 [1995]), and we decline to reach itin the exercise of our interest of justice jurisdiction. Angiolillo, J.P., Florio, Chambers and Hall,JJ., concur.


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