People v. Padgett

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Rosengarten, J.), rendered May 23, 2001, convicting him of criminal possession of stolen property in the third degree and violating Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1110, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant claims that the Supreme Court erred in disallowing his peremptory challenge to a prospective juror since the People did not establish a prima facie case of racial discrimination. The defendant’s claim is academic. When, as here, a defendant gives race-neutral…