People v. Watson

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Barbara Newman, J.), entered on or about June 15, 2000, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of rape in the first degree, sodomy in the first degree, and burglary in the first degree (two counts), and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to two consecutive terms of 12V2 to 25 years for the burglary convictions, and two concurrent terms of 1272 to 25 years for the rape and sodomy convictions, to run consecutively with the burglary convictions, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s application pursuant to Batson v Kentucky (476 US 79 [1986]) was…