Ordered that the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Kings County, to hear and report on the prosecutor's exercise of peremptory challenges, and the appeal is held in abeyance in the interim. The Supreme Court is to file its report with all convenient speed.
We agree with the defendant's contention that he established, prima facie, that the prosecutor exercised his peremptory challenges in a racially discriminatory manner (see, Batson v Kentucky
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