Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered.
The defendant contends that he was deprived of his right to exercise peremptory challenges when the trial court rejected the defense counsel's reasons for excluding three prospective white jurors during the first round of jury selection (see, Batson v Kentucky,
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