PEOPLE v. VASQUEZ


271 A.D.2d 465 (2000)

706 N.Y.S.2d 879

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. SOLIVETTE VASQUEZ, Appellant.

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

Decided April 3, 2000.


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The trial court properly seated a white prospective juror against whom defense counsel and counsel for the codefendant had jointly exercised a peremptory challenge. Counsel for the defendant originally stated that he did not object to the juror, and only offered a race-neutral explanation for the challenge after counsel for the codefendant admitted that he had no basis for his challenge other than a "gut feeling". Accordingly...

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