People v. Francis

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Michael Obús, J.), rendered July 27, 1998, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the first degree and robbery in the first and second degrees, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to three concurrent terms of 25 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Since defendant did not contest the race-neutral explanation offered by the prosecutor for the peremptory challenge at issue, defendant’s claim pursuant to Batson v Kentucky (476 US 79) is unpreserved (People v Allen, 86 NY2d 101, 111), and we decline to review it…