Defendant failed to prove the affirmative defense to felony murder, as there was overwhelming evidence that defendant aided the commission of the homicidal act and had reasonable ground to believe that another participant was armed with a deadly weapon (Penal Law § 125.25 [3] [c]).
The trial court properly accepted the prosecutor's reasonable race-neutral explanations for challenging individual veni-repersons (People v Hernandez,
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