Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered; findings of fact have been considered and are determined to have been established.
The defendant, a black man, contends that he was denied a fair trial due to the prosecutor's racially motivated peremptory challenges, which excluded all of the black jurors interviewed at the voir dire, and resulted in his trial before an all-white jury. We agree.
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