Bell v. People

—Proceeding pursuant to Judiciary Law § 509, by the petitioner, a defendant in a criminal action entitled People v George Davis Bell, pending trial for murder in the first degree under Queens County Indictment No. 128/97, to direct the New York State Office of Court Administration and the Commissioner of Jurors of Queens County to disclose to the petitioner’s counsel all juror qualification questionnaires and a record of persons who are found not qualified or disqualified or who aré exempted or excused, and the reasons therefor, for Queens County, from 1986 to the present, or, in the alternative, (1) to direct the Commissioner of Jurors of Queens County and the New York State Office of Court Administration to provide these materials to the court, and (2) to seal the materials for appellate review.

Adjudged that the petition is denied and the proceeding is dismissed, without costs or disbursements (see, Matter of Gordon, 249 AD2d 395 ; Matter of Hale, 239 AD2d 500 ; see generally, Matter of Newsday, Inc. v Sise, 120 AD2d 8 , affd 71 NY2d 146 , cert denied 486 US 1056 ). Mangano, P. J., Thompson, Santucci and Altman, JJ., concur.