PEOPLE v. JENKINS


27 A.D.3d 372 (2006)

811 N.Y.S.2d 69

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. SAMUEL JENKINS, Appellant.

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

March 28, 2006.


The court properly denied defendant's application made pursuant to Batson v Kentucky (476 U.S. 79 [1986]). Defendant failed to make a prima facie showing of racial discrimination in the People's exercise of their peremptory challenges inasmuch as defendant's limited statistical evidence was not strong enough, by itself, to raise an inference of discrimination (see People v Brown, 97 N.Y.2d 500

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