People v. Meyers

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (J. Goldberg, J.), rendered October 18, 1993, convicting him of sodomy in the first degree and sexual abuse in the first degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

A peremptory challenge by a criminal defendant that is ostensibly based upon a prospective juror’s status as a crime victim is not pretextual on its face and should not be determined to be pretextual in the absence of evidence that such challenges have been applied in a discriminatory manner (see,…