Legal Opinion
People v. Vega
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 27, 1997PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Hall, J.), rendered July 27, 1995, convicting him of murder in the second degree and unlawful imprisonment in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
During the-fourth round of jury selection, the People made a reverse-Batson claim (see, Batson v Kentucky, 476 US 79) after the defendant exercised five of his six peremptory challenges against white jurors. The defense counsel did not contest the prosecutor’s claim of a prima facie violation and offered…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Hernandez v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- People v. HernandezNew York Court of Appeals · 1990
- People v. AllenNew York Court of Appeals · 1995
- People v. PayneNew York Court of Appeals · 1996
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Jones v. StinsonDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 2000
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- People v. MaplesAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2001