People v. Brown

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (J. Goldberg, J.), rendered October 6, 1998, convicting him of robbery in the second degree and grand larceny in the fourth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

After the defendant’s counsel exercised peremptory challenges to three white prospective jurors, the prosecutor raised a reverse-Batson objection (see, Batson v Kentucky, 476 US 79). The Supreme Court concluded that the facially race-neutral reasons proffered by the defendant’s counsel for the challenges were…