People v. Cuevas

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Howard Bell, J.), rendered December 23, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him to a term of 5 to 10 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s motion made pursu*57ant to Batson v Kentucky (476 US 79). The prosecutor provided a race-neutral, nonpretextual reason for striking the venireperson juror at issue, in that the venireperson lacked work experience of a type that the prosecutor deemed significant. Defendant has not established that the prosecutor failed to challenge…