People v. Graves

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Lott, J.), rendered September 9, 1996, convicting him of murder in the second degree and attempted murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

There is no basis to disturb the trial court’s determination that the prosecutor’s facially-neutral explanations for excusing black female jurors were not pretextual (see, People v Allen, 86 NY2d 101; see also, People v Barnes, 261 AD2d 281; People v Haywood, 251 AD2d 255).

Evidence of the defendant’s prior bad…