People v. Lawson

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Hanophy, J.), rendered February 24, 1998, convicting him of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant’s contention, the trial court’s Bat-son ruling was proper (see Batson v Kentucky, 476 US 79). The People established a prima facie case of discrimination based on the defense counsel’s pattern of using peremptory challenges against white jurors (see People v Chapman,…