People v. Jenkins

OPINION OF THE COURT

Alexander, J.

On this appeal from an order of the Appellate Division, *553reversing defendant’s conviction, after jury trial, of robbery in the second degree and ordering a new trial because the prosecutor purposefully excluded blacks from the petit jury in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (Batson v Kentucky, 476 US 79), the People argue that no pattern of discriminatory use of peremptory challenges was shown and that because the number of blacks remaining on the jury, despite the exercise of their peremptory challenges, reflected the…