An anonymous appellant has been granted a new trial after an Appellate Division, Second Department, panel found the lower court improperly allowed a biased juror to serve during a convicted sex offender’s civil confinement trial in 2014.

In the unanimous opinion Wednesday by Justices William Mastro, Cheryl Chambers, Joseph Maltese and Robert Miller, the panel found that Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Wayne Ozzi made an “erroneous” denial of a challenge to a prospective juror in Matter of State of New York v. G. (Anonymous), 16768/12.

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