Legal Opinion
People v. Stevens
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 1, 2004PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
*3Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Dora L. Irizarry, J), rendered March 29, 2000, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent felony offender, to a term of 15 years to life, unanimously affirmed.
The court properly granted the People’s Batson application (Batson v Kentucky, 476 US 79 [1986]; People v Kern, 75 NY2d 638 [1990], cert denied 498 US 824 [1990]). The record supports the court’s finding that defense counsel’s purportedly employment-based race-neutral reason for exercising a peremptory challenge was transparently…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Apprendi v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Ring v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 2002
- Hernandez v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- People v. HernandezNew York Court of Appeals · 1990
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Stevens v. MillerCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2012