People v. Cruz
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Friedmann, J.), rendered April 1, 1991, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant’s Batson claim (see, Batson v Kentucky, 476 US 79), based upon the Assistant District Attorney’s use of peremptory challenges against the majority of black and Hispanic female venirepersons, is not preserved for appellate review. Only after the trial court opined that the prosecutor was "knocking all…
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