People v. Shaheed

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Lasak, J.), rendered December 5, 2007, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, reckless endangerment in the first degree (two counts), resisting arrest, and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that, based upon the prosecutor’s challenge under Batson (see Batson v Kentucky, 476 US 79 [1986]) and Kern…