Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered. No questions of fact have been raised or considered.
We find that the trial court erroneously determined that the defense counsel had purposely discriminated against a prospective white juror despite the defense counsel's articulation of non-pretextual, racially-neutral reasons for his challenge. There is a rational basis for the suspicion that a crime victim might be less sympathetic to...
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