Legal Opinion
People v. Waters
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided February 1, 2011PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Sullivan, J.), rendered May 16, 2006, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant contends that the Supreme Court erred in denying his Batson challenges (see Batson v Kentucky, 476 US 79 [1986]) with respect to the prosecutor’s use of peremptory challenges to exclude African-American women from the jury. The prosecutor provided race- and gender-neutral explanations for excluding each of the prospective jurors at issue…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Hernandez v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- People v. HernandezNew York Court of Appeals · 1990
- People v. SmocumNew York Court of Appeals · 2003
- People v. FullerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2003
3Cited by8 opinions
- People v. SmithAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2012
- People v. DaileyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2011
- People v. TuckerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2015
- People v. AdamsAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2014
- People v. AdamsAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2014
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