Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law and the facts, and a new trial is ordered.
The defendant contends that the Supreme Court erred in granting the prosecution's peremptory challenges to two prospective black jurors because the prosecution's race-neutral explanations for challenging those potential jurors were pretextual (see Batson v Kentucky,
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