People v. Have
Opinion of the Court
— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (Harrington, J.), rendered March 23, 1988, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, and unlawful possession of marihuana, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant’s Sixth Amendment challenge to the jury panel as underrepresentative of the black population of Nassau County was both procedurally and substantively inadequate and, hence, properly rejected by the trial court. The defendant’s written submission contesting the composition of the panel simply asserted: "Pursuant to CPL 270.10, defendant trevor p. have hereby challenges the panel herein based on racial imbalance namely, lack of black and/or minority panel members (3 out of approximately 72)”, and, as such, did not comply with the statutory mandate requiring "a written
We have considered the defendant’s remaining contentions and find them to be without merit. Mangano, J. P., Brown, Kooper and Sullivan, JJ., concur.
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