Judgment unanimously affirmed.
Memorandum:
We reject the contention of defendant that the prosecutor improperly exercised peremptory challenges to remove two black prospective jurors from the jury. Defendant failed to articulate factual grounds adequate to raise the inference that the prosecutor employed his challenge to exclude the first prospective juror because of her race (see, People v Childress,
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