Defendant's conviction was not against the weight of the evidence since the jury was plainly justified in rejecting defendant's version of the events. Defendant's argument that the prosecutor improperly exercised peremptory challenges to exclude homosexual prospective jurors is unpreserved (CPL 470.05 [2]). In any case, in making a Batson challenge, counsel for co-defendant failed to make a prima facie showing that the prosecutor had systematically excluded...
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