Although not raised on appeal, defendant's counsel raised the Batson issue after the first round of jury selection in the joint trial of defendant and his co-defendant Aniel Rodriguez. This Court reversed Rodriguez's conviction, holding that the People exercised peremptory challenges in a discriminatory manner in striking three Hispanic prospective jurors and thus "fatally impaired" the jury selection process (People v Rodriguez,
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