Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 2011

People v. Waters

People v. Waters
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided February 1, 2011
81 A.D.3d 673; 916 N.Y.S.2d 791
People v. Waters

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Opinion of the Court

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Sullivan, J.), rendered May 16, 2006, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that the Supreme Court erred in denying his Batson challenges (see Batson v Kentucky, 476 US 79 [1986]) with respect to the prosecutor’s use of peremptory challenges to exclude African-American women from the jury. The prosecutor provided race- and gender-neutral explanations for excluding each of the prospective jurors at issue (id. at 97; see People v Smocum, 99 NY2d 418, 420 [2003]). The Supreme Court’s determination that these explanations were nonpretextual is entitled to deference on appeal and should not be *674disturbed where, as here, it is supported by the record (see People v Hernandez, 75 NY2d 350, 356-357 [1990], affd 500 US 352 [1991]; People v Fuller, 302 AD2d 405 [2003]). Prudenti, P.J., Angiolillo, Florio and Sgroi, JJ., concur.

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