People v. Watson

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Vaughan, J.), rendered May 24, 1993, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree (four counts) and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Kings County, to hear and report on the prosecutor’s exercise of peremptory challenges against black prospective jurors, and the appeal is held in abeyance in the interim. The Supreme Court, Kings County, is to file its…