Judgment unanimously affirmed.
Memorandum:
Following jury selection, defendant moved for a mistrial on the ground that the prosecutor had exercised peremptory challenges to remove the only black potential jurors from the jury panel. The record discloses that the 19-year-old daughter of one of the potential jurors had been a rape victim, and the other woman's grandmother had been raped 10 years earlier by a stranger. Because these characteristics appeared to...
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