PEOPLE v. LEAKES

ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.

The trial court properly refused to grant the defendant's belated peremptory challenge to an unsworn juror after both sides had accepted the juror and the court had begun to entertain challenges regarding the next subgroup of potential jurors (see, CPL 270.15; People v. Alston, 88 N.Y.2d 519; People v. Smith, 277 A.D.2d 178; People v. Phillip, 215 A.D.2d 598).

The defendant received meaningful representation at trial (see, People v. Benevento, 91 N.Y.2d 708; People v. Flores, 84 N.Y.2d 184).

The defendant's remaining contentions, including those raised in his supplemental pro se brief, are unpreserved for appellate review and are, in any event, without merit.

SANTUCCI, J.P., KRAUSMAN, McGINITY and FEUERSTEIN, JJ., concur.