People v. Johnson

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles H. Solomon, J.), rendered June 7, 2005, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first and second degrees, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 25 and 15 years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s application made pursuant to Batson v Kentucky (476 US 79 [1986]). Defendant failed to make a prima facie showing of racial discrimination in the People’s exercise of their peremptory challenges, because defendant’s very limited statistical evidence was not…