People v. Bain

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Wade, J.), rendered September 27, 1995, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, assault in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that the trial court erred in determining that the defense counsel’s racially-neutral explanations for challenging two jurors were pretextual. We disagree. The *524trial court was in the best…