Opinion
Submitted September 10, 1999
October 21, 1999
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Marrus, J.).
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.
The trial court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in denying the defendant's challenge for cause to the entire second jury panel where none of the prospective jurors expressed a state of mind that would have prevented the rendering of an impartial verdict (see, CPL 270.20 [b]; People v. Torpey, 63 N.Y.2d 361, 367; People v. Culhane, 33 N.Y.2d 90, 105, cert denied 439 U.S. 1047).
The defendant's sentence is not excessive (see, People v. Suitte, 90 A.D.2d 80).
SANTUCCI, J.P., JOY, FRIEDMANN, and GOLDSTEIN, JJ., concur.