People v. Gayle

Decision Date03 April 1997
Citation238 A.D.2d 133,655 N.Y.S.2d 513
PartiesThe PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Anthony GAYLE, Defendant-Appellant.
CourtNew York Supreme Court — Appellate Division

Ellen Sue Handman, for Respondent.

Andrew Abraham, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before MURPHY, P.J., and RUBIN, TOM and ANDRIAS, JJ.

MEMORANDUM DECISION.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Allen Alpert, J.), rendered June 10, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the third degree and criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent felony offender, to concurrent prison terms of 25 years to life, and 1 year, respectively, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of reducing the sentence on the third-degree burglary conviction to a term of 15 years to life, and otherwise affirmed. Judgment, same court and Justice, also rendered June 10, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial of another indictment, of rape in the first degree, robbery in the first degree, burglary in the first degree and criminal possession of stolen property in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent felony offender with respect to the criminal possession of stolen property conviction and as a persistent violent felony offender with respect to the remaining convictions, to consecutive terms of 25 years to life on the rape, robbery and criminal possession of stolen property convictions, and a concurrent term of 25 years to life on the burglary conviction, said sentences to run consecutively to the sentences imposed for the above-mentioned third-degree burglary and fifth-degree criminal possession of stolen property convictions, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of directing that the sentences run concurrently with each other but consecutively to the sentences imposed for the above-mentioned third-degree burglary and fifth-degree criminal possession of stolen property convictions, and otherwise affirmed.

In the trial of the first indictment, the court properly denied defendant's challenge for cause to a prospective juror. The juror's responses to the court's inquiries, taken as a whole, demonstrated that she could render an impartial verdict based on the evidence (People v. Williams, 63 N.Y.2d 882, 885, 483 N.Y.S.2d 198, 472 N.E.2d 1026), and that, due to the passage of time, the juror no...

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  • Flores v. Keane
    • United States
    • U.S. District Court — Southern District of New York
    • 13 Junio 2001
    ...juror had vigorously affirmed his ability ... to follow the judge's instructions." Report at 30; see also People v. Gayle, 238 A.D.2d 133, 133, 655 N.Y.S.2d 513 (N.Y.App.Div. 1997), appeal denied, 90 N.Y.2d 893, 662 N.Y.S.2d 436, 685 N.E.2d 217 (1997) (upholding trial court's decision to de......
  • People v. King
    • United States
    • New York Court of Appeals Court of Appeals
    • 29 Marzo 2016
    ...remain in the pool or be excused” (id., citing People v. Henderson, 45 A.D.3d 903, 904, 844 N.Y.S.2d 475 [2007], People v. Gayle, 238 A.D.2d 133, 133–134, 655 N.Y.S.2d 513 [1997], lv. denied 90 N.Y.2d 893, 662 N.Y.S.2d 436, 685 N.E.2d 217 [1997], and Judiciary Law § 518 ).As we have previou......
  • People v. King
    • United States
    • New York Court of Appeals Court of Appeals
    • 29 Marzo 2016
    ...remain in the pool or be excused” (id., citing People v. Henderson, 45 A.D.3d 903, 904, 844 N.Y.S.2d 475 [2007], People v. Gayle, 238 A.D.2d 133, 133–134, 655 N.Y.S.2d 513 [1997], lv. denied 90 N.Y.2d 893, 662 N.Y.S.2d 436, 685 N.E.2d 217 [1997], and Judiciary Law § 518 ).As we have previou......
  • People v. Wright
    • United States
    • New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division
    • 23 Diciembre 2015
    ...696 ; People v. Umana, 76 A.D.3d at 1112, 908 N.Y.S.2d 244 ; People v. McGhee, 4 A.D.3d 485, 772 N.Y.S.2d 344 ; People v. Gayle, 238 A.D.2d 133, 655 N.Y.S.2d 513 ). The Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in denying the defendant's challenges for cause to three prospective ju......
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