PEOPLE v. BROWN


13 A.D.3d 145 (2004)

786 N.Y.S.2d 55

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. RAYMOND BROWN, Appellant.

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

December 14, 2004.


The court properly granted the People's challenge made pursuant to Batson v Kentucky (476 U.S. 79 [1986]). The record supports the court's finding that defense counsel's purportedly race-neutral reasons for exercising a peremptory challenge were pretextual, and this credibility-based finding is entitled to great deference (see People v Hernandez, 75 N.Y.2d 350 [1990], affd

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