People v. Owoaje

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Cyrulnik, J.), rendered December 3, 2014, convicting him of sexual abuse in the first degree and endangering the welfare of a child, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Kings County, for a new trial.

The defendant contends that the Supreme Court erred in disallowing his peremptory challenges to two prospective white jurors. During the first round of jury selection, the prosecutor raised reverse-Batson challenges…