PEOPLE v. STRANTON


257 A.D.2d 583 (1999)

685 N.Y.S.2d 250

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. DERRICK STRANTON, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

Decided January 11, 1999.


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant's contention that he was deprived of his right to exercise peremptory challenges because the Supreme Court rejected two of his peremptory challenges and seated the jurors over his objection is without merit. During the first round of jury selection, the defendant used peremptory challenges against six of the seven white male jurors. Since the defendant's counsel stated...

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