Defendant appeals from his conviction for manslaughter in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, stemming from the shooting death of Shawn Stokes in a restaurant in the City of Buffalo. His principal contention on appeal is that the prosecutor's exercise of peremptory challenges to exclude two Black prospective jurors violated his constitutional right to equal protection...
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