People v. Brown

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Demakos, J.), rendered September 1, 1999, convicting him of manslaughter in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that the prosecutor, in response to his Batson challenge (see Batson v Kentucky, 476 US 79), failed to relate the prospective juror’s employment as a social worker to the facts of this case. This argument was not asserted before the trial court and therefore is not…