Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered.
After the trial court found that the prosecutor had established a prima facie case of racial discrimination by the defense counsel in his exercise of peremptory challenges, the court asked the defense counsel to explain his challenges. With respect to prospective juror number two in the third round of jury selection, the defense counsel explained that this juror's father was a Judge. The...
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