Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant contends that the prosecutor's race-neutral explanation for the peremptory challenge to one of the prospective jurors was pretextual and should have been rejected by the trial court. However, a trial court's conclusion that a facially race-neutral explanation is not pretextual should be accorded great deference on appeal (see Hernandez v New York,
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