Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York May 25, 2000 (People v. Mathis)

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Budd Goodman, J.), rendered August 3, 1998, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 11 years, unanimously affirmed.

Under the circumstances presented, defendant’s claim that he was deprived of one of his allotted peremptory challenges requires preservation.