Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
During the second round of voir dire, the defense counsel exercised 8 of 9 peremptory challenges against white jurors. The defense counsel did not object to the court's finding of a prima facie reverse-Batson violation, but asserted that it had challenged three of these white jurors because of relatives who were in law enforcement, and/or their crime-victim status.
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