Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the law, by reducing the indeterminate term of imprisonment imposed on the conviction of attempted murder in the second degree from 12-½ to 25 years imprisonment to 8-1/3 to 25 years imprisonment; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed.
We agree with the trial court that the prosecutor's peremptory challenges were sufficient to raise an inference of purposeful discrimination (see, Batson v Kentucky,
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