Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered.
During the first round of voir dire, after the People and the defense counsel made their peremptory challenges, the defense counsel raised a successful Batson challenge to one of the People's peremptory challenges. The Supreme Court committed reversible error by then permitting the People to exercise an additional peremptory challenge (see, CPL 270.15 [2]; People v Alston...
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