People v. Trent

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (John Perone, J.), rendered October 23, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 9 to 18 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant failed to preserve his claim that the court inhib*51ited his exercise of peremptory challenges when it commented that, in this case involving the robbery of a mail carrier, a pattern of challenges to postal workers might raise concerns under Batson v Kentucky (476 US 79). Defendant expressed no disagreement with the court’s…