People v. Gooden

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (McKay, J.), rendered March 29, 1993, convicting him of robbery in the first degree and robbery in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

*684Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

During the second round of voir dire, defense counsel objected to the prosecution’s use of peremptory challenges against black jurors. The court indicated that it did not see a pattern forming, but offered to allow the prosecutor to "volunteer his reasons, at least for today and * * * any comments about [the peremptory…