Ordered that the case is remitted to the County Court, Nassau County, to hear and report on the prosecutor's exercise of peremptory challenges, and the appeal is held in abeyance in the interim; the County Court is to file its report with all convenient speed.
The defendant claims that the prosecution's use of its peremptory challenges to systematically exclude black venirepersons from the jury violated his rights under both the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments (
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