People v. Baker

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Irving Lang, J., at hearing, trial and sentence; Allen Alpert, J., at post-remand hearing), rendered on May 15, 1986, convicting defendant of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree and resisting arrest, and sentencing him, as a persistent felony offender, to an indeterminate prison term of 6 years to life and a determinate term of 1 year, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

Previously, this Court found that the defendant made a prima facie showing of purposeful racial discrimination in jury selection (see, Batson v Kentucky, 476 US 79;…