PEOPLE v. SMITH


186 A.D.2d 35 (1992)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Patricia Smith, Also Known as Vanessa Haywood, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

September 10, 1992


Defendant argues that since she is an African-American woman, the trial court should have required the People to offer race- and gender-neutral explanations for peremptory challenges, exercised during the first round of jury selection, to two minority women, one an African-American, and the other with an Hispanic surname. Absent a prima facie showing of purposeful discrimination on either racial or gender grounds, as required by Batson v Kentucky (476...

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