People v. Thompson

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Nicholas Iacovetta, J.), rendered July 11, 2013, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 25 years to life, unanimously modified, on the law, to the extent of reducing the mandatory surcharge to $250 and the crime victim assistance fee to $20, and otherwise affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s application pursuant to Batson v Kentucky (476 US 79 [1986]) with respect to the striking of two prospective jurors. The prosecutor provided race-neutral…