PEOPLE v. CAMARENA


289 A.D.2d 7 (2001)

734 N.Y.S.2d 14

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. RAFAEL CAMARENA, Appellant.

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

Decided December 4, 2001.


The court's rulings on applications made by both defendant and the People pursuant to Batson v Kentucky (476 U.S. 79) were proper. A trial court's rulings on whether proffered race-neutral reasons for peremptory challenges are pretextual is entitled to great deference because the trial court is in the best position to evaluate the credibility of an attorney's assertion that a challenge was not based on race (see, People v Hernandez...

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