The prosecutor's explanation that he rejected two African-American female panelists because each had served previously as a juror in a drug sale case and he feared that they might be dissatisfied with the "possible lack of evidence" in this "buy and bust" case, where no buy money or stash was recovered, was facially neutral (see, People v Richie,
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