People v. Wade

211 A.D.2d 523, 621 N.Y.S.2d 63, 1995 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 423

Opinion

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Robert Seewald, J.), rendered June 18, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of grand larceny in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 2 to 4 years, unanimously affirmed.

The trial court correctly ruled that the prosecutor’s use of six of her ten peremptory challenges to strike four African-Americans and two others who defendant claimed were Blacks but the prosecutor and court claimed were Hispanics, did not make out a prima facie showing of discrimination against African-Americans, the prosecutor having offered sufficient race-neutral explanations for her. striking of the jurors. Concur—Rosenberger, J. P., Asch, Rubin and Nardelli, JJ.