Ordered that the case is remitted to the Supreme Court, Kings County, to hear and report on the prosecutor's exercise of peremptory challenges and the appeal held in abeyance in the interim. The Supreme Court is to file its report with all convenient speed.
We find merit to the defendant's contention that the prosecutor's use of peremptory challenges to strike either 12 or 13 of the 15 black members of the venire was sufficient to establish a prima facie case of racial...
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