People v. King

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Rios, J.), rendered April 7, 1998, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant’s contention, the court properly determined that the race-neutral reason offered by the prosecutor for striking a black prospective juror was not pretextual as the prosecutor clearly related the prospective juror’s work and…