People v. Morris

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Miller, J.), rendered February 9, 1993, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered.

The defendant and co-defendant Donovan Foster were tried in November 1992 for murder in the second degree. During the voir dire, the People attempted to exercise a peremptory challenge against a prospective juror. The court called the attorneys to the bench and requested a racially neutral explanation for the…