Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered.
At the conclusion of the second round of jury selection, the defense counsel exercised peremptory challenges to five male prospective jurors. Arguing that the defense counsel was purposefully excluding males from the jury, the prosecutor raised a reverse-Batson objection (see Batson v Kentucky,
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