Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Kings County, for a new trial.
In the course of jury selection, the defendant exercised several peremptory challenges to prospective jurors that were contested on the ground that he was attempting to exclude white people from the jury (see Batson v Kentucky,
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