People v. Bridget
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (Thorp, J.), rendered February 16, 1978, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant contends that he was deprived of his right to a fair trial because the prosecutor used his peremptory challenges to excuse all five of the potential black jurors on the venire. We disagree.
In Batson v Kentucky (476 US 79), the Supreme Court held that the Equal Protection Clause forbids a prosecutor from *588challenging potential jurors…
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