People v. Brown

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Goldstein, J.), rendered November 21, 1989, convicting him of burglary in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered. No questions of fact have been raised or considered.

The defendant’s contention that the prosecutor exercised peremptory challenges to potential venirepersons in a racially motivated manner, violating the standard established by Batson v Kentucky (476 US 79), is supported by the record. The defendant is…