In a criminal case, neither the prosecutor nor the attorney for the defendant may, through the exercise of peremptory challenges, seek to exclude the members of a "cognizable group" from the jury which is ultimately to be selected and which is ultimately to decide the defendant's fate (see, Batson v Kentucky,
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