People v. Reyes

Application by defendant, pro se, for a writ of error coram nobis pursuant to People v Bachert (69 NY2d 593) on grounds of ineffective assistance of assigned appellate counsel, unanimously granted, to the extent of permitting defendant to file a brief on the issue of whether the prosecution’s exercise of peremptory challenges to remove all Hispanic veniremen comports with the constitutional standards set forth in Batson v Kentucky (476 US 79) and made retroactively applicable hereto under Griffith v Kentucky (479 US 314), said filing to occur no later than the October 1989 Term, and the order…