People v. Hunter

243 A.D.2d 292, 664 N.Y.S.2d 516, 1997 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 9647

Opinion

Judgment Supreme Court, Bronx County (David Stadtmauer, J.), rendered October 6, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of attempted murder in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of 12 V2 to 25 years, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was not against the weight of the evidence. Defendant’s course of conduct and the surrounding circumstances, viewed as a whole, supports the inference that defendant intended to kill the victim (cf., People v Wiggins, 191 AD2d 364, lv denied 81 NY2d 1021).

Defendant failed to present the trial court with a prima facie case of prosecutorial discrimination during jury selection. He did not present any factors or circumstances to support a prima facie case suggesting purposeful exclusion (Batson v Kentucky, 476 US 79, 94; People v Bolling, 79 NY2d 317, 325). Defendant’s remaining claims are without merit. Concur—Sullivan, J. P., Rosenberger, Ellerin and Nardelli, JJ.