People v. Thompson

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Heffernan, J), rendered March 29, 2006, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that the trial court’s ruling on the People’s revers e-Batson challenge (see Batson v Kentucky, 476 US 79 [1986]) was in error. We disagree. The prosecutor raised a revers e-Batson challenge, and the trial court determined that with respect to one peremptory strike, defense counsel’s proffered…