Judgment unanimously affirmed.
Memorandum:
The prosecutor provided a race-neutral explanation for the exercise of a peremptory challenge against an Afro-American potential juror, and defendant failed to sustain his burden of persuasion that the prosecutor's explanation was a pretext for racial discrimination (see, People v Payne,
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