The court properly found that the defense did not meet its burden of presenting a prima facie case of purposeful discrimination in the prosecution's exercise of peremptory challenges. Defendant did not offer "facts and other relevant circumstances sufficient to raise an inference that the prosecution used its peremptory challenges to exclude potential jurors because of their [gender]" (People v Childress,
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