People v. Wilson

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Wade, J.), rendered March 16, 1999, convicting him of criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The trial court properly rejected the defendant’s argument that the prosecution’s race-neutral explanation for its peremptory challenge to a prospective juror was pretextual. A trial court’s conclusion that a facially race-neutral explanation is not pretextual should be accorded great deference on appeal (see, Hernandez v New…