Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered.
We find that the trial court erroneously rejected the defendant's peremptory challenge of a prospective juror despite defense counsel's articulation of nonpretextual, racially-neutral reasons for his challenge. Challenges by the defendant based on jurors' "crime-victimization status" are not pretextual on their face, and they should not be regarded as pretextual in the absence of evidence...
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