PEOPLE v. VEGA


198 A.D.2d 56 (1993)

603 N.Y.S.2d 147

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Ernesto Vega, Appellant

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

November 9, 1993


The People established a prima facie case of purposeful racial discrimination in the use of peremptory challenges when they established that the defense used 7 of its 8 challenges to exclude all but one of the white persons on the panel of 16 (People v Kern, 75 N.Y.2d 638, cert denied 498 U.S. 824). Thereafter, defendant failed to give a legitimate, race-neutral reason for his challenge to a white male juror (People v Jenkins...

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