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 the exercise of peremptory challenges, the court asked counsel to explain her challenges with respect to several prospective jurors. With respect to a juror in the first round of jury selection, the defense counsel explained that the juror had been the victim...
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