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 (
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