People v. Brown

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Latella, J.), rendered November 9, 2015, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law and the facts, and a new trial is ordered.

The defendant contends that the Supreme Court erred in granting the prosecution’s peremptory challenges to two prospective black jurors because the prosecution’s race-neutral explanations for…