People v. Hymes

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Lewis, J.), rendered October 22, 1998, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal facilitation in the fourth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. By decision and order of this Court, dated April 9, 2001, the appeal was held in abeyance and the matter was remitted to the Supreme Court, Queens County, to hear and report on the prosecutor’s exercise of a peremptory challenge against a potential black juror (People v Hymes, 282 AD2d 546). The Supreme Court…